Practice Specialist Social Worker, Adolescent Service

Sanctuary Personnel; City Of London; On-site; GBP 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Practice Specialist Social Worker to join the Adolescent Team in Wandsworth. The role involves leading practice improvements, managing a portfolio of complex cases, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality service. Ideal candidates will possess a Social Work Qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The salary is up to £53,336 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Promote outstanding practice within Children's Social Care.
• Hold complex cases and co-work with colleagues.
• Lead reflective supervision and coaching sessions.
• Develop and deliver practice workshops.
• Ensure outstanding quality service to children and families.

Skills

Systemic practice knowledge

Complex case management

Coaching social workers

Quality assurance collaboration

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Practice Specialist Social Worker within the Adolescent Team to work full time based in Wandsworth. The salary for this permanent Practice Specialist Social Worker job is up to £53,336 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Actively promote and lead the embedding of our vision of our Outstanding Practice Framework across Children's Social Care — this requires knowledge and skills in systemic practice and its application to social work.
• Hold a small portfolio of complex cases; including co-working complex cases with less experienced colleagues.
• Lead group reflective supervision spaces with teams and for social workers.
• Provide coaching to social workers in areas of practice improvement.
• Auditing of practice where there is identified need for improvement and developing improvement plans.
• Devise, develop and deliver practice workshops around identified areas of improvement arising from audit, including monitoring of impact of practice development.
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in quality assurance and training & development to embed practice improvement, monitor impact and disseminate learning.
• To work closely with the designated Service Cluster and the Principal Social Worker to provide practice leadership, swift and timely response to practice improvements and monitor impact of improvements to practice.
• To work closely and collaboratively with colleagues to ensure children and families receive outstanding quality service across Children's Social Care.
• Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of legislation at national policy and to ensure practitioners, teams and designated service areas are briefed on changes; this will include the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children Act, threshold applications for children in need and children at risk of significant harm; Children Act 2004, and care planning, fostering and adoption regulation and guidance in relation to young people looked after.
• Excellent knowledge of theory, conceptual frameworks, practice approaches, research and evidence-based interventions that underpin effective social work practice, including awareness of current issues and debates in social work profession and academia.
• To work closely with and be fully committed to the implementation of Family Safeguarding in Wandsworth, leading and creating opportunities to develop practice for social workers working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues.

Requirements

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact

This Practice Specialist 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, 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 reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This has played a significant role in previously winning "Best Candidate Care" at the Recruiter Awards, and 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).

Reasonable Adjustments

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