Social Worker - Disabled Children's Team

Location Haringey
Job type Permanent
Salary £33,988 - 45,628 per year
Reference 195151

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Disabled Children’s Team to work full time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £45,628 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To assess, identify levels of risk and need and deliver protective or supportive services for children at risk or in need or subject to a Protective Plan.
  • To deliver a high-quality service to children in our care within our role of corporate parent and aimed ensuring best outcomes for children and young people.
  • To implement Child Protection plans by working in partnership with parents and colleagues from other agencies to effect better outcome for children on the register.
  • To accommodate children and young people and initiate care proceedings when appropriate.
  • To implement care plans, including arrangements for funding and ensuring that the cost of provision remains within agreed budgets.
  • To monitor and review the implementation of and to provide continuing advice, support and social work services to children and young people, their families and their carers.
  • To provide verbal and written reports to Child Protection conferences, strategy meetings, planning meetings and reviews.
  • To take responsibility for managing an individual caseload, having regard to the relative needs of all service users and ensuring an effective use of time and resources.
  • To maintain and develop up to date relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice, through training as required or agreed by Team Manager.
  • To participate in the development and implementation of performance indicators and quality service standards.
  • To ensure that all legislation and local council policies regarding Health & Safety are adhered to.
  • These activities may be varied from time to time to meet the changing needs of the service.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

  • A Social Work Degree or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Social Work England registered.
  • Good written and Verbal communication skills.
  • Good timekeeping skills.

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.