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Prison Designated Social Worker - HMP Cookham Wood

Sanctuary Personnel

Rochester

On-site

GBP 41,000 - 48,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Sanctuary Personnel is seeking a Prison Designated Social Worker for HMP Cookham Wood. This role involves safeguarding advice, collaboration with various agencies, and ensuring children's rights and needs are prioritized. Ideal candidates will have a social work qualification and experience in the field.

Qualifications

Experience managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
Knowledge of adult health and social care systems.
Experience working with adults in a social care context.

Responsibilities

Provide expert safeguarding advice and guidance.
Advise managers on child protection issues.
Develop and update safeguarding policies.

Skills

Safeguarding advice

Child protection

Community and group work

Education

Social work qualification

Prison Designated Social Worker - HMP Cookham Wood

Rochester, Newcastle Upon Tyne , Northumberland , England
NE19

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Prison Delegated Social Worker within the HMP Cookham Wood Team to work full time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Prison Delegated Social Worker job is up to £41,055 per annum.

* Provide expert safeguarding advice and guidance to Senior Managers within the setting.

* Advise YCS Managers on all child protection issues, both legal as well as practice issues.

* Assist in the development and updating of children's safeguarding policies and procedures within the establishment including for children visiting the establishment.

* Attendance at meetings relevant to the area of work including the YOI Safeguarding Meetings and Resettlement Planning and Review Meetings and LAC Meetings for those children and young people with whom the dedicated social workers maybe actively involved. Social workers will prioritise children in most need and support resettlement practitioners with all others.

* Develop links via the Resettlement Practitioners and home YOTs with relevant partnership working e.g. Local Authorities, Police, Health, Probation to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities and to secure the best outcomes for children and young people.

* Develop and maintain effective links between establishment and Local Authorities both home and host in liaison with the Resettlement Practitioners and YOT. In doing so work in conjunction with Independent Reviewing Officers to ensure that Local Authorities meet their responsibilities towards children in custody and at release.

* Support the partnership work between the Security Department and the Safeguarding Department within the YOI.

* Promote a child-first approach and share professional knowledge to all staff working within the YOI, in training and in support of ensuring that the needs rights and entitlements of Looked After Children and Care Leavers are considered as defined in legislation and regulation.

* To participate in supervision and one to one Performance Development Reviews and contribute to the identification of own an team development needs.

* At the discretion of the Head of Service and/or Manager, such other activities as may from time-to-time be required to ensure the needs of the service are met.

Requirements of this Prison Delegated Social Worker job:

* Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.

* Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.

* Experience in working with adults in a social care context.

* Experience of community and/or group work.

* Knowledge of adult health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Prison Delegated Social Worker job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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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