Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Looked After Children Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £36,298 per annum.
Main duties:
- Effectively manage and prioritise your caseload of children and young people.
- Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people that you are responsible for and come into contact with.
- To communicate and engage effectively and meaningfully with children, families and key stakeholders to inform assessments, care planning and reviews.
- Ensure that in all aspects of work that we listen to children and young people and children are at the centre of everything we do.
- Actively contribute to the service agenda via attending and engaging in team meetings, peer supervision, training opportunities, supporting colleagues and inputting into how to improve service delivery.
- To undertake direct work with children and families to engage and seek to improve emotional and behavioural needs.
- To maintain accurate up to date children’s files. To write case notes are accurate, clear and objective and uses language that cares.
- To prepare, complete and present verbal and written reports to meetings, reviews and panels.
- Participate in professional supervision and annual appraisal review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of your social work practice.
- To ensure effective communication and accountability with key stakeholders in developing a shared and child-centred approach to fulfilling our statutory responsibilities for children and families.
- To carry out consultation with children, young people and their families and to take part in and develop, young people’s participation in the department.
- To undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post.
Requirements of this Social Worker role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Relevant Social Work experience.
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.
