Social Worker - Supporting Disabled Children Service

Location Wandsworth
Job type Permanent
Salary £34,428 - 47,082 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call +447458161360
Reference 201227

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,082 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases.
  • Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review (APIR).
  • Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
  • Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adult’s services.
  • Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres and other settings.
  • Develop a good understanding of evidence based practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.
  • Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
  • Take part in case/practice audits and contribute to peer audit arrangements as required.
  • Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
  • Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
  • Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.
  • Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.
  • Demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children’s System.
  • Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.

Requirements of this role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Understanding, knowledge and ability to follow guidelines to ensure compliance with Health & Safety at Work, Data Protection and other statutory requirements.
  • This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

Contact:
This Social Worker 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.