Senior Social Worker

My Social Work News; Croydon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Experienced Social Worker for the Children in Care Team in Merton. The role involves working directly with children and families, preparing reports, and supporting colleagues. Applicants should have a social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registered.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with children, young people and families using a range of social work tools.
• Prepare and explain reports to children, families, and professionals.
• Support colleagues to develop evidence-based practice.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Education

A social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Experienced Social Worker within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Merton.

The salary for this permanent Experienced Social Worker job is up to £45,834 per annum.

• Work directly with children, young people and families using Merton’s Relationship-based practice model and a range of Signs of Safety and systemic social work tools and approaches.
• Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with children, young people, families and carers to offer containment and create the conditions for change to occur.
• To prepare, provide and explain written reports and plans to children, families, carers and professionals in a range of different setting including home visits; family network meetings; court hearings; panels and multi-agency meetings.
• To work alongside children, young people, parents and families experiencing or at risk of experiencing social, emotional, health or behavioural issues to bring about sustainable change.
• To undertake direct observation of practice, with effective feedback to offer quality assurance.
• To support colleagues and partners to develop evidenced based practice.
• Where the role requires, to have responsibility for effective group supervision, individual supervision, appraisal and mentoring of colleagues.
• To participate in and oversee successful completion of learning and insight processes within team.
• To provide information and signposting for children, young people, families and carers to relevant universal, early help and specialist services in the local area and beyond where appropriate.
• To actively work in partnership with other professional groups to deliver a holistic service to children, young people, families and carers.
• To undertake other tasks allocated by manager or senior colleagues, in keeping with the responsibilities of the grade and your development.
• Work in accordance with the Council’s statutory responsibilities, policies and procedures and comply with equality and diversity policies, procedures and legislation.
• Be responsible for expert social work oversight/supervision of staff and social work interventions with children, families and carers where required.
• Be required to organise own workload and supervise the work of colleagues as required by their line manager.

Requirements of this Experienced Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Experienced Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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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