Senior Social Worker

My Social Work News; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker to join their Brief Intervention Team in Wandsworth. This full-time role involves leading statutory cases, managing social work tasks, and collaborating with various health and social care practitioners. The successful candidate will enhance the council's reputation for high-quality services, ensuring effective support for children and families. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful change within the community while working in a supportive and diverse environment.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England and experienced in managing caseloads.
• Knowledge of children's health and social care systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead professional in statutory cases including child protection.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams for safeguarding.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Case Management

Community Work

Knowledge of Legislation

Education

Social Work Degree

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Brief Intervention Team to work full time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £52,582 per annum.

• Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases.
• Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families; assessment, planning, implementation and review.
• Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
• Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adults services.
• Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres and other settings.
• Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
• Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meting performance targets consistently; providing accredited practice teaching as required.
• Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
• Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.
• Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventative and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
• Enhance and promote the reputation of the council as a provider of high quality services to children and families.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Senior 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, 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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