Social Worker - Duty & Assessment Team

Location
Job type Permanent
Salary £39,506 - 47,798 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call +447458161360
Reference 215233

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Duty & Assessment Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Windsor & Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,798 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Holding a mixture of cases including complex cases.
  • To investigate complaints of alleged neglect, abuse, or ill-treatment of children, undertake assessments and, where appropriate, arrange accommodation for children, young people, maintaining appropriate personal/professional boundaries.
  • Work with children and young people, families, carers, and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning.
  • Liaise with colleagues in own and other departments and external agencies in order to gather information relevant to assessment and care planning activities.
  • To maintain an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps.
  • To make effective use of supervision and appraisal as an opportunity to critically reflect on casework and to identify learning and development needs to continually improve upon practice, and to support CPD.
  • To demonstrate the standards of proficiency as required by the HCPC in order to maintain registration.
  • To work within the organisation’s professional policy and procedures and code of conduct.
  • To be a Social Worker for Achieving for Children you will be passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people.

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 AMHP 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.