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My Social Work News; Greater London, London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Une agence de recrutement innovante propose un poste permanent de Designated Social Care Officer à Haringey. Le rôle implique le développement de stratégies pour les réformes de l'ENF, la supervision d'équipes et la collaboration avec diverses équipes pour assurer la conformité avec la loi. Les candidats doivent avoir une qualification en travail social et une expérience dans la gestion des cas. Cette opportunité est idéale pour ceux qui cherchent à avoir un impact significatif au sein des services sociaux.

Benefits

Environnement de travail inclusif

Formation continue sur la diversité et l'inclusion

Qualifications

• Qualification avec enregistrement auprès de Social Work England.
• Expérience dans la gestion de cas sociaux et supervision.
• Connaissance des systèmes de santé et d'agences sociales.

Responsibilities

• Développer des stratégies et des plans d'action pour les réformes de l'ENF.
• Superviser un réseau de champions de l'ENF dans les services sociaux.
• Collaborer avec différentes équipes pour répondre aux exigences légales.

Skills

Gestion de cas sociaux

Travail en équipe

Connaissance des systèmes de santé et de soins sociaux

Education

Qualification en travail social

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Designated Social Care Officer to work full time based in Haringey.
The salary for this permanent Designated Social Care Officer job is up to £49,890 per annum.

• An operational and strategic role accountable for developing strategies, action plans and processes which support and enable the SEND reforms agenda to become embedded within social care operations and practice.
• Establishing and leading a network of social care SEND ‘champions’ and link workers across Children’s Social Care. Facilitating and overseeing the implementation of the SEND agenda within social care through this network and gathering insight and intelligence from them and other groups such as the parent carer forum to inform future planning.
• Understanding complex and varied work stands across functions, services and agencies in order to identify and develop opportunities for co-production and integrated working between social care, health and education to progress SEND reforms agenda.
• Working collaboratively with a range of departments to ensure social care meet statutory responsibilities under the Children & Families Act and Care Act, and to drive forward organisational culture change aligned to the SEND reforms.
• To attend as the Social Care lead the weekly SEN Panel and to ensure Social Care actions are communicated and followed up from the Panel as well as wider learning from Panel helping to impact practice.
• Constructively challenging practice, systems, processes and protocols to enhance SEND reform compliance as part of this collaboration.
• Working collaboratively to help frame the social care elements of the local authority’s self-evaluation process to ensure readiness for SEND Ofsted & Children’s Social Care Ofsted inspections.
• Involvement in and initiation of varied multi-stakeholder projects and work streams. Themes include participation and engagement, person-centred approaches, joint working initiatives, outcomes frameworks, operational function design, IT systems connectivity, EHC processes, quality assurance, joint commissioning, Early Years, Preparing for Adulthood, the Local Offer.
• Contributing to social care workforce development by formulating programme of blended learning/training relating to the SEND reforms across caried audience profile and functions.
• The duties and responsibilities outlined in this jib profile are indicative of the role, however they are not exhaustive and may be subject to change. In addition, you will be required to undertake other reasonable duties as directed by your manager.

Requirements of this role:

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

Contact:
This Designated Social Care Officer job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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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