Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Advanced Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Exeter.
Team/Specialism: Children & Families
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online careers hub
Duties:
- Work closely with your Team Manager, you will provide professional leadership and supervision to colleagues within your team, supporting your manager with the day-to-day operations and contributing to an effective and efficient service to the Children & Families team
- Have a smaller caseload, working with children and families with a complexity of needs (including undertaking in-depth assessments) and where, through supervision and mentoring, you will share your knowledge and experience with colleagues and students to continually improve practice standards within your team
- Champion high standards of professional social work practice, by encouraging and supporting opportunities for reflection and learning and delivering on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring to unqualified/alternatively qualified staff, students and less experienced social workers
- Provide a lead social work role within each team, supporting the development of good evidence-based practice
Requirements of the Advanced Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Substantial post-qualifying experience and the ability to demonstrate that you’re working at the Experienced Social Worker level
- Demonstrate the ability to work with families with complex needs within a multi-agency environment
- Be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of social work mentoring, coaching and training professional colleagues
- Have evidence of substantial post-qualifying training and development
- Be able to lead improvement and challenge the quality of social care practice in a constructive manner
Contact:
This Advanced Practitioner job is advertised by Lauren Minter; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
