Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the 0-25 Disability Team to work full time for Hertfordshire.
The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £45,859 per annum.
Main duties:
- Provides professional leadership in situations which are complex or ambiguous.
- Actively engages with, assists and provides advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role.
- Acts as the lead professional in safeguarding situations (both inter-agency and inter-professional situations).
- Assess and manages risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, while protecting their human rights.
- Engages with, assists and provides advice to carers, conducting carer’s assessments to enable them to sustain their caring role.
- Acts as the lead professional when an adult is at risk of social exclusion and assists people to deal with adverse circumstances such as, poor health, poverty, inadequate living conditions, as well as maximising the strength of individuals, their families and their communities.
- Acts as the lead professional where a person is severely constrained by social or family circumstances and provides support to achieve a reasonable degree to independence and autonomy.
- Promotes independence and community wellbeing, choice and control within a personalisation framework and uses self-directed support flexibly.
- Acts as the lead professional when a person’s health or capacity is deteriorating or likely to deteriorate without intervention and the alternative may be premature admission to institutional forms of care or a legal intervention by the state in the lives of a family.
- Keeps and maintains accurate, up-to-date service user records, in line with professional requirements departmental recording methods.
- Maintains accurate and up to date knowledge of resources through continual professional development, supervision and active engagement with local communities.
- Undertakes specialist training as required to maintain and progress career within the organisation.
- The duties and responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present. The post holder is expected to accept any reasonable alterations that may from time to time be necessary.
Requirements of this Social Worker job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
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.
