Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Senior Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Kingston Upon Thames.
Team/Specialism: Adolescent Safeguarding
Pay Rate: £38.50 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
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- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
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- Professional Development: Working as a locum in Social Work provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Support children and young people and their families, Senior Practitioners lead on complex identification of risk, needs and pathway planning, providing direct support to children, young people and families to achieve their aims
- Provide mentoring/assessing to NQSW’s and students within their team
- Hold a range of cases at various stages of intervention and levels of complexity
Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- Proven evidence of continuing professional development
- Accreditation PEPS
- Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families
- Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people)
- Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services and your role
- An ability to coach and mentor other professionals i.e. NQSW, students etc
- Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them
- Appropriate understanding of how to undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker, manage caseloads, implement plans and provide assistance and support to help children and young people to achieve their aims, using appropriate interventions and casework methods
- A passion for Achieving for Children’s vision, mission and values to support children and young people to live safe, happy, healthy and successful lives
- Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving and multitasking
- Able to use a range of digital hardware or software to support your work effectively i.e. microsoft or Google software
- Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight
- Personal determination, drive, energy and ambition to overcome obstacles, achieve challenging objectives, celebrate success and deliver excellent outcomes for children
- Taking a strength based approach to managing situations
- Commitment to resource-sharing and collaborative working within Achieving for Children and across organisational boundaries in the best interests of children and families
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills that are open, honest, persuasive and pragmatic, including excellent negotiation and influencing skills
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Michael Bowen; 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.
