Newly Qualified Social Worker, Looked After Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Ilford; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Newly Qualified Social Worker to join the Looked After Children Team. This exciting opportunity offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families. The role involves managing a diverse workload while adhering to performance indicators and safeguarding protocols. You'll also engage in continuous professional development, ensuring your skills and knowledge remain sharp and relevant. If you are passionate about social work and eager to contribute to a supportive environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation and safeguarding practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage workload with performance indicators as per policies.
• Demonstrate understanding of social welfare policy and its impact.
• Participate in continuous professional development activities.

Skills

Social Work

Knowledge of relevant legislation

Safeguarding practices

Communication skills

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

Newly Qualified Social Worker, Looked After Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Newly Qualified Social Worker within the Looked After Children Team to work Full Time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Newly Qualified Social Worker job is up to £40,443 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. To manage a workload with jointly agreed performance indicators in accordance with the policies and procedures of LB Redbridge Children Services.
2. Manage workload, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
3. Develop an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps, and to meet these, establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise.
4. Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honesty.
5. Obtain regular, effective supervision from a social worker for effective practice, reflection and career development.
6. To have particular regard to all safeguarding issues and to ensure that they are raised appropriately through professional and managerial channels.
7. Demonstrate through your practice an understanding and use of knowledge related to your area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence-based practice research.
8. Demonstrate in practice and recording a working knowledge of human growth and development throughout the life course.
9. Demonstrate, through adjusting your practice, the short and long-term impact of psychological, socio-economic, environmental and physiological factors on people's lives, taking into account and development, and how this informs practice.
10. Demonstrate through practice a critical understanding of social welfare policy, its evolution, implementation and impact on people, social work, other professions, and inter-agency working.
11. Keep up-to-date with evidence informed practice about what is most effective in working with children and young people and families.
12. Carry out appropriate administrative tasks in support of the work including maintaining records, preparing statistical returns and completing internal documentation.
13. Participate in all relevant learning and development activities and other opportunities for continuous professional development. In particular to take responsibility for participating in to date safeguarding training on regular basis.

Requirements of this Newly Qualified Social Worker role:

1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.
4. Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Newly Qualified Social Worker 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.

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.