Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Social Care Service to work full time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £49,503 per annum.
Main duties:
- To engage and fully participate in supervision and to apply critical reflection and analysis to inform professional decisions. To ensure risks are discussed with your line manager to gain direction, advice and support with practice.
- To effectively manage a reasonable caseload appropriate to the level of experience and to maintain adequate throughput of work. To discuss any challenges with caseload management with your line manager in a timely way to access any necessary support with prioritisation.
- To be professionally curious when undertaking effective assessments of individual and carer needs and risks within statutory frameworks, using a strengths-based, person-centred approach to ensure they are focused on outcomes. This includes promoting a holistic, multi-agency approach by developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships.
- To provide advice and information to residents and carers ensuring that the assessments, care and support plans, information about charging and other information regarding service provision is communicated in a timely way.
- To be able to manage complex cases and offer skilled opinion to colleagues and partners. To offer expert support to case conferences and produce high quality assessments and reports for a range of functions.
- To monitor implementation of packages of care and ensure support plans, including funding arrangements for any services, are thoroughly reviewed to meet needs and risks in accordance with statutory requirements and Council policy and deliver highest quality of service and best value.
- To take responsibility for consistent, accurate, clear, and timely case recording. To ensure that confidentiality is maintained, and that information is shared with the resident, service providers and other agencies (health) in accordance with the Department’s data protection and information sharing requirements.
- To be able to understand the impact of poverty, inequality and diversity on social and economic opportunities and how these relate to residents’ health and wellbeing as well as the functioning of their families, particularly in relation to adult safeguarding and child protection and empowering individuals who may lack capacity.
- To work in ways that develops good working relations and collaborative arrangements with internal and external stakeholders.
Benefits:
- £3,000 retention bonus (every 2 years’ service).
- Payment of Social Work England registration fee.
- Performance related salary progression scheme.
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays (40 paid days in total).
- Regular reflective supervision and peer group supervision.
- Bespoke Personal Development Plans.
- Amazing fully funded training opportunities and career pathways including – Practice Educator; Leadership and Management; Best Interest Assessor; Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP); Social Work Apprenticeships; Coaching and Mentoring and Adults Safeguarding at Risk.
- Access to Research in Practice membership and Institute of Leadership and Management resources.
Requirements of this Social Worker role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
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.
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