Advanced Social Work Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive recruitment agency in Greater London is seeking an Advanced Social Work Practitioner to provide leadership within the Kinship Team. Responsibilities include managing a caseload of complex cases, providing consultation, and supporting team members. The ideal candidate must have a Social Work Qualification and demonstrate effective leadership and mentoring skills. This permanent position offers a salary of up to £54,129 per annum.

Qualifications

• Social Work Qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead social work colleagues by sharing knowledge and managing practices.
• Provide consultation and support across the organization.
• Manage a complex social work caseload.

Skills

Professional leadership

Expertise in social work

Coaching and mentoring

Complex case management

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Hillingdon, Ruislip, Greater London, England HA4

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner within the Kinship Team to work full time based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is up to £54,129 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership to social work colleagues through demonstrating exemplary practice, sharing knowledge and positively managing the interface between practice and education/training.
• Act as organisational expert in role specialism, providing advice and support to other social work colleagues and partners.
• Disseminating specialised Kinship knowledge and advice to other teams as required.
• Co-ordinating and having oversight of regular Group supervision and reflective time for the team members, and providing coaching and mentoring as required. Arranging learning for the team at intervals through the year that can be considered for continued Professional Development.
• Developing the Kinship support offer to families and leading on this with the team. This includes the on-going and regular facilitation of Skills to foster training for Kinship carers.
• Directly supporting learners in the team, such as apprentices and SW Students, this may include a Practice Educator role, as required. This will entail office based working where needed to ensure best learning opportunities and outcomes.
• Manage social work caseload of most complex cases.
• Model and take responsibility for workforce planning and workload allocation systems to sustain the Standards for Employers of Social Workers.
• Provide professional consultation to all teams within the directorate and other agencies, ensuring effective and efficient practice and procedures are in place.
• Demonstrate awareness and compliance with required Standards including the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework.

Requirements

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact

This Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications, we regretfully 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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