Senior Social Worker - Adult Community Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 46,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker for the Adult Community Team. This exciting full-time role involves providing professional leadership in complex case assessments, managing support planning, and engaging with service users and carers. The ideal candidate will have a professional social work qualification, strong leadership skills, and a solid understanding of relevant legislation. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and make a meaningful impact in the community by empowering service users and promoting positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in complex case assessments and support planning.
• Manage budgets and allocate support packages for service users.
• Conduct assessments and manage risk within a safeguarding framework.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Assessment

Case Management

Communication

Social Work Qualification

Education

Professional Social Work Qualification

Job description

Senior Social Worker - Adult Community Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Adult Community Team to work full time based in Huntingshire, Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £45,987 per annum.

1. To provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements for assessments for assessment and support planning in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service users and others.
2. To provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative, and based on analysis of complex evidence.
3. Complete support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
4. Actively engage with, assist, and provide advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role.
5. Allocate and authorise support packages as appropriate.
6. Manage and utilise cash limited budgets to commission services and assistance from other sources.
7. Lead guide and direct team members to ensure work plans are in place and accountability taken by each member for the cases held.
8. To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative, and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
9. Assess and balance risk and protective factors within a safeguarding framework.
10. Case manage and undertake proportionate assessment and effective risk management of complex situations, understanding when to take positive risk as appropriate.
11. To provide regular line management and practice supervision to direct reports, ensuring relevant training needs are met. Lead on the management of employee relations matters day to day and at the informal stage, ensuring these are addressed in a timely and appropriate manner, seeking advice as appropriate.
12. Work in partnership with other organisations at a strategic level to achieve positive outcomes for service users and carers.
13. To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment and recognise diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Senior Social 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.