Flexible Social Worker – Young Persons Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Part Time / Full Time

Hourly Pay

Professional Development

Work-Life Balance

Vibrant Community

Job summary

Sanctuary Personnel is seeking a Social Worker to join the Young Persons Team in Knowsley, delivering child-centred social work to young people and families with safeguarding and wellbeing at the core. The role offers Part Time or Full Time hours with a competitive hourly rate.

You will undertake comprehensive assessments, develop outcome-focused care plans, manage caseloads within timescales, and collaborate with education, health and housing to provide holistic support.

Qualifications

• Assessments of young people’s needs, strengths, risks and circumstances.
• Develop clear, outcome-focused care and support plans with young people and families.
• Maintain and progress an allocated caseload within statutory and organisational timescales.
• Conduct regular reviews, amending plans as necessary.
• Keep precise and timely case records with the young person’s views central to decisions.
• Manage safeguarding concerns with risk assessments and risk-management plans.
• Engage with young people to foster resilience, independence and life skills.
• Collaborate with education, health, housing, youth justice and voluntary organisations.
• Participate in statutory duties, including child protection conferences and courts as needed.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive assessments of young people's needs, strengths, risks, and circumstances.
• Develop clear, outcome-focused care and support plans in collaboration with young people and their families.
• Maintain and progress an allocated caseload within statutory and organisational timescales.
• Conduct regular reviews, amending plans as necessary in response to evolving circumstances.
• Keep precise and timely case records, ensuring young people's views are central to all assessments and decisions.
• Manage safeguarding concerns, undertaking risk assessments and crafting effective risk-management plans.
• Engage with young people to foster resilience, independence, and life skills, advocating for their rights and needs.
• Work collaboratively with education, health, housing, youth justice, and voluntary organisations, ensuring holistic support.
• Participate in statutory duties, contributing to child protection conferences and courts as needed.
• Commit to professional development through supervision, appraisal, and continuous learning.

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel is seeking a Social Worker to join the Young Persons Team in Knowsley, delivering child-centred social work to young people and families with safeguarding and wellbeing at the core. The role offers Part Time or Full Time hours with a competitive hourly rate.

You will undertake comprehensive assessments, develop outcome-focused care plans, manage caseloads within timescales, and collaborate with education, health and housing to provide holistic support.