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 for Elysium Healthcare, based in Redbridge.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £51,041 per annum.
Main duties:
- Fundamental to fulfilling the responsibilities of this post is the ability to respond flexibly, positively and successfully to the ever-changing pressures and agendas faced by agencies working with children, young people and their families.
- As an experienced social worker you are expected to understand the level and nature of the responsibilities that you will accept within the team, offering supervision and leadership to both peers and less experienced professional staff.
- To be accountable to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities for their practice.
- To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.
- To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare and implement appropriate care plans in line with CLA procedures.
- To prepare and present range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences and planning meetings.
- Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps and establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise.
- Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honestly.
- Take responsibility for obtaining regular, effective supervision from a social worker for effective practice, reflection and career development.
- Demonstrate through adjusting your practice the short and long-term impact of psychology, social-economic, environmental and physiological factors on people’s lives, taking into account age and development, and how this informs practice.
- Demonstrate understanding the journey of the child and ensure that the voice of the child or young person is incorporated effectively into care planning.
- Participate and lead group work, multi-agency work, family work and individual direct work with children and their families.
- Keep up-to-date with evidence informed practice about what is most effective in working with children, young people and families.
- Attend all relevant internal meetings including chairing when appropriate, and represent the Children’s Services at external meetings as required.
- Be prepared to engage in all areas of work across the scope of children’s services.
- Work flexibly, including evening and occasional weekend work including participation in Office Duty Rota.
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 Stefan Garrett; 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.
