Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in West Berkshire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £41,418 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide an efficient and effective service for children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
- To investigate, evaluate and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidences conclusions and realistic action plans.
- To develop practice, which takes a holistic view of the individual locating them in both their immediate and extended social circles, and having fill regard to their overall development needs.
- To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the Council’s policies and procedures.
- To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including statements and care plans for care proceedings in the Family Proceedings, County and High Courts.
- To ensure the Assistant/Team Manager is kept fully appraised of problems arising from workload and seek advice as and when necessary.
- Where appropriate to act as the duty worker for the team, responding to queries and issues.
- To proactively liaise with and work in partnership other agencies and organisations, parents and carers. To promote the involvement of young service users and families in service development.
- To attend conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting the Council plans and opinions with professionalism and integrity.
- In some cases the post will be based in an integrated multi-professional team and the post holder will need to demonstrate an understanding of & commitment to working across traditional professional boundaries.
- To contribute to the achievement of good quality services for the prevention of social work services, taking into account national standards and guidelines and evidence of what works.
Requirements of this Social Worker role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
