Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children’s Disability Team to work full time based in Gloucestershire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £45,513 per annum.
Main duties:
- Build positive relationships with children and their families through direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.
- Provide a clear, accurate and holistic assessment of a child and their family needs in line with statutory and local guidance and in collaboration with the child, their family and other agencies.
- Carry a caseload of children and families in line with the experience of the social worker and the organisational needs of the service function, including children in need in child protection plans and children in care.
- Carry a caseload which will progress in number and complexity and which meets the needs of the service.
- Develop SMART plans with children and their families to balance risk factors and needs to achieve outcome focussed interventions.
- To undertake direct work with children, young people and families in order to manage risk and achieve the sustained and positive outcomes identified in assessments and plans.
- Prepare high quality reports for relevant meetings and to present them to a variety of other professionals.
- Prepare high quality statements and paperwork for legal proceedings and be able to represent the child, young person and their families and the council in court and other settings.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, research and council policy and procedures to ensure our statutory responsibilities to children and young people are met.
- Develop and maintain effective professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide written and verbal reports which are concise, evidence based and informative.
- Build professional relationships with children and their families to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.
- Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the jobs, participate in appropriate training and development activities.
- Be accountable for own practice ensuring it is of high quality and reflect bests practice.
- Support, promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people.
Requirements of a Social Worker job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Experience in fostering recruitment related activity.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
