Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Supervising Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work Full Time based in Waltham Forest.
The salary for this permanent Supervising Social Worker job is up to £49,083 per annum.
Main duties:
- Conduct statutory and/or complex/specialist assessments of foster carer’s capacity to care or continue for care for children within NMS and regulatory timescales. To work in partnership with Looked After Children’s social workers to provide placements hat meets their needs.
- Provide advice and make recommendations based on up-to-date knowledge and analysis/evaluation of information.
- Manage escalated or complex customer issues within the relevant area.
- Plan, deliver and oversee programmes or packages of care and/or support or other interventions for a complex caseload. Monitor and review cases.
- Provide professional expert advice and guidance to colleagues and partner agencies in supporting children and young people.
- Contribute to the development of service plans to meet strategic business goals.
- Liaise internally and externally and work with colleagues from other agencies to ensure children and young people’s interests are supported.
- Maintain properly documented case files, records and information. Prepare standard reports as required.
- Mentor and support others in their development.
- Research developments in relevant area. Collate process and analyse information/data. Translate outputs into advisory reports/documents/actions as appropriate.
- Lead on the development, implementation, maintenance and management of systems, policies, procedures and/or standards within area of responsibility.
- Work closely with other to support/Manage the development and delivery of improvements in processes and procedures.
- Prepare and present a full range of reports (both standard and non-standard) covering area of responsibility.
- Act in accordance with all policies and procedures which apply to the job and understand the reasons for this.
- Carry out all duties and responsibilities with reasonable care for the health and safety of self and other and report any potential hazards or unsafe practices to line manager.
Requirements of this Supervising 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 Supervising 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.
