Senior Family Support Worker - Targeted Early Help Service - Dagenham - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Family Support Worker for the Targeted Early Help Service in Barking & Dagenham. The role involves supervising a team, conducting assessments, and ensuring safeguarding practices are followed. Ideal candidates will have a social work qualification and experience in case management. Competitive salary up to £44,331 per annum is offered.

Qualifications

• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Must ensure safeguarding measures are in place.
• Contribute to training on practice issues.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage a team of practitioners.
• Complete records for initial threshold decisions.
• Liaise with statutory services as required.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Risk management

Assessment skills

Team management

Communication

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Senior Family Support Worker – Targeted Early Help Service

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Family Support Worker within the Targeted Early Help Service Team to work full time based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this permanent Senior Family Support Worker job is up to £44,331 per annum.

• To supervise and line manage a small team of practitioners in line with the supervision policy, escalating issues of concern for management review and decision making as required.
• To be responsible for ensuring effective risk management, comprehensive assessments and outcomes focused plans are in place.
• Complete accurate and timely records to capture the rationale behind the initial threshold decision and recommendations.
• Ensure all work meets the requirements and timeframes outlined within the Targeted Early Help Practice Standards.
• Ensure that safeguarding children is central to all work completed and that appropriate action is taken in line with the borough’s safeguarding procedures.
• In consultation with team managers, make decisions on casework, reviewing assessments and recommending appropriate levels of intervention and support, identifying cases that require transfer to the social work teams.
• To work with the Team Manager to ensure consistent delivery across the localities and an equal distribution of work across the borough. This may involve moving staff between localities to manage demand.
• To contribute to developing the local early help partnership, chairing meetings as required.
• To be responsible, together with the line manager and other managers, for the provision of management information and its interrogation to inform service provision and meet performance indicators.
• To liaise effectively and work with universal and statutory services where appropriate.
• To assess and monitor risk for children and young people and take responsibility for informing the appropriate statutory safeguarding agencies where appropriate.
• To take responsibility for updating specialist knowledge in the chosen service area and to undertake training as identified.
• To contribute to local and departmental training on practice issues in line with departmental policies and procedures, in light of research findings.

Requirements of this Senior Family Support Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Senior Family Support Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.