Social Worker - Adolescent Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Adolescent Social Worker to join their team in Wandsworth. In this full-time role, you will undertake a variety of social work tasks, including assessments and planning for children in need. You will collaborate with allied health and social care practitioners to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to safeguarding. This position offers an opportunity to enhance your professional credibility while contributing to a supportive team environment. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England and qualified in social work.
• Experience in managing caseloads and supervising other social workers.

Responsibilities

• Perform social work tasks with children in need and their families.
• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure effective safeguarding.

Skills

Social work qualification

Managing social work caseloads

Community and group work

Knowledge of children's health and social care systems

Education

Social Work qualification

Tools

Electronic case recording/reporting tool

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker - Adolescent to work full time based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Adolescent Social Worker job is up to £49,285 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review.
2. Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
3. Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children's and adults services.
4. Develop a good understanding of evidence-based practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.
5. Building professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
6. Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
7. Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventative and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
8. 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.
9. Understand, promote and integrate into practice council policies in relation to valuing diversity and promoting equalities.
10. Enhance and promote the reputation of the council as a provider of high-quality services to children and families.
11. The Shared Staffing Arrangement will keep its structures under continual review and as a result the post holder should expect to carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function, commensurate with the level of the post.

Requirements:

1. Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
2. Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
3. Experience of community and/or group work.
4. Knowledge of children's health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Adolescent 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 role 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.