Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Location: Bury, Greater Manchester
Working Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £45,441 - £46,464 per annum
The Council is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the well-being of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees to uphold this dedication. Employment is contingent upon a satisfactory background check via the Disclosure and Barring Service at the appropriate level.
Benefits of the role:
- Convenient Parking: Complimentary car parking pass
- Professional Fee Coverage: Reimbursement of your Social Work England registration fees.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible and adaptable working arrangements to encourage and help you to fulfil a healthy work-life balance
- Educational Incentives: Receive a reward of up to £1000 upon successful completion of the practice educator program for social work students
- Training and Development: Access to extensive training programs
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Exclusive discounts on gym memberships and access to salary sacrifice schemes
- Generous Leave Policy: Attractive annual leave allowance with the benefit of Greater Manchester Combined Authority continuous service commitment.
- Financial Security: Participation in a highly competitive local government pension scheme.
- Wellbeing Support: Comprehensive employee wellbeing support services.
Main Duties as a Social Worker:
- Service Delivery: Provide expert social work services to children in need, children requiring protection, and children in care, ensuring adherence to the Children Act principles. Offer specialist advice on complex social care cases, applying a high level of expertise to challenging situations.
- Assessment and Intervention: Lead and conduct assessments and interventions in intricate or contentious cases, utilising a broad range of social work knowledge, skills, methods, and techniques. Directly engage with challenging children, young people, and vulnerable service users, adapting approaches as necessary.
- Planning and Coordination: Contribute to the development and implementation of plans for children in need, including those requiring protection, children in care, foster carers, adopters, and family support. Work collaboratively within a professional network, including families and foster carers, to support individual cases effectively.
- Professional Representation: Provide high-quality written reports for various settings, including Court proceedings. Represent the Local Authority in court, offering verbal evidence and detailing Local Authority actions as required.
- Case Management and Transfer: Manage the transfer of cases between authorities, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity of care.
- Service Development & Improvement: Assist the Team Manager with team coordination, support, and development initiatives. Provide guidance and support to frontline practitioners, fostering effective decision-making and professional growth.
- Performance Improvement: Support the enhancement of staff and foster carer performance through agreed support plans. Contribute to the implementation of practice models and evidence-based interventions across the service.
- Quality Assurance and Service Development: Participate in auditing, case sampling, and quality assurance processes. Engage in team meetings, task groups, and working parties to develop services, policies, procedures, and practice. Gather feedback from children, young people, carers, and adopters to inform service improvements.
Key Requirements for this role:
- Possess a degree in Social Work (such as CQSW, CSS, DiPSW, or an equivalent qualification).
- Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Extensive post-qualifying experience in a Social Work setting, specifically working with children and families.
- Proven expertise in a specialist area of social work such as Child Protection, Court work, Children in Care, Fostering, or Adoption.
- In-depth knowledge of Children’s Social Worker professional standards, regulatory requirements, and inspection regimes.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.
