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

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Adult Social Worker for the Ageing Well Team in Southend-on-Sea. The position offers a salary of up to £42,403 per annum and requires a professional Social Work qualification, along with experience in health or social care. Responsibilities include high quality practice, coordination with partners, and community engagement. Candidates must also embrace an asset-based approach and have strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in health or social care.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead high quality complex social work practice.
• Ensure effective coordination with statutory partners.
• Apply a strengths/asset-based approach in assessments.

Skills

Complex social work practice

Communication skills

Active engagement

Co-production

Positive risk assessment

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Registration eligibility

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Ageing Well Team to work full time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Adult Social Worker job is up to £42,403 per annum.

• Be an exemplar for high quality complex social work practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person‑centred approach.
• Work closely with all partner across statutory partners (Such as Police), Health & Social Care to ensure that there is effective coordination of interdependences including the resolution of risks and other issues may arise.
• 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.
• 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.
• Develop your strengths, abilities, and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on complexities of practice.
• Embrace positive risk assessment and decision making to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice.
• Communicate effectively including accurate records, written reports, appropriately reporting concerns to managers and external stakeholders when required.
• Be responsible for prioritising your work and ensuring you have sufficient capacity to effectively manage your workload.
• Be willing to develop your strengths and abilities to ensure you feel inspired and able to take on the complexities of social work practice.
• Be willing to be a co‑creator within the communities you serve and support the transformation of practice towards empowerment, change agency and asset‑based community development.
• The successful candidate may be needed to work outside the core hours on weekends and bank holidays when required, including having some on‑call responsibility when needed.

Requirements of this Adult Social Worker role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Substantial experience in health or social care.

Contact:
This Adult 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.

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