Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,223per annum.
Main duties:
- Providing an effective and high-quality social work service within the Recruitment and Assessment Team. To work in partnership with case managers, team leaders and key professionals to ensure that children and young people in need of protection and statutory intervention can safely have their needs and addressed whilst remaining with their parents, Kinship, carers, and foster carers.
- Build positive, supportive, and respectful relationships with families, foster carers, and others in order to help support children in need of help or protection.
- To be responsible for and manage a mixed caseload of assessments of foster carers involved with mainstream fostering, short-breaks and respite carer, kinship foster carers, Supported Lodging Providers, SGO to meet the placement needs and outcomes for children.
- To undertake a range of assessments of prospective and existing foster carers (mainstream fostering, short-breaks, respite, kinship and special guardianship assessment and assessments for supported lodgings providers).
- To devise, coordinate and implement plans that are based on the assessments, or any further updated assessments and address areas of unmet safety and welfare needs for children.
- To effectively assess and manage risk and ensure that safer care plans, risk assessments are in place. To prepare and present written and verbal reports on children and foster carers where appropriate.
- To devise, monitor, implement and review (where appropriate) foster carers’ agreements, placement agreements and support plans.
- Provide and ensure consistently high quality risk management and decision making in identifying the most appropriate plans and interventions for children and young people.
- Ensure effective outcomes for children and young people are achieved.
- Ensure case allocation is based on appropriate skills of the social worker.
- Manage the team establishment and the recruitment and support of team members.
Requirements of this Social Worker role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Kier 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.
