Adult Senior Social Worker - Ageing Well West Team - Southend-on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker for their Ageing Well West Team in Medway. This full-time role offers a salary of up to £49,498 per annum. Candidates should have a Social Work Qualification, understanding of legislation, and management experience. Key responsibilities include promoting social work values, engaging with communities, and leading change initiatives.

Qualifications

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Past experience within Management roles.

Responsibilities

• Act as a catalyst for change based on best practices.
• Engage in effective team working and communication.
• Promote high-quality complex social work practice.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Management experience

Job description

Adult Senior Social Worker – Ageing Well West Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Ageing Well West Team to work Full Time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £49,498 per annum.

• Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring that solutions and outcomes are based on recognised best practice and innovation.
• Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participating in effective team working.
• Be an exemplar for high quality complex social work practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person-centred approach.
• Promote critical reflection and participate in group work to ensure that the work environment is safe, responsive, flexible and emotionally capable.
• Embrace a culture of active engagement and co-production across the team, community and system wide.
• Engage with people on all levels when considering how services are delivered with an onus on co-production.
• Participate in community engagement and cohesion to effectively reduce adults and families who are experiencing isolation, loneliness, marginalisation and disconnection.
• Be willing to use critical thinking about how services are developed and maintained with our communities and stakeholders.
• Embrace the vision of an asset-based approach, health and social care integration and developing community resilience.
• Apply a strengths/asset-based approach to practice, both in terms of individual assessments, care plans and reviews and the culture within the team.
• Promote social work values, ethics and commit to ensuring that individuals are at the centre of practice.
• Develop your strengths, abilities and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on the complexities of practice.
• Become co-creators of change within the communities you serve and the system you work within.
• Be responsible for prioritising your work and ensuring you have sufficient capacity to effectively manage your workload.
• The successful candidate may be required to work in a variety of Social Work teams depending on the business need.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Past experience within Management roles.

Contact:

This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.