Senior Social Worker - Adult Social Care - Wandsworth - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker for the Adult Social Care Service in London. This role involves leadership, supervision of social care staff, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. The successful candidate will need a professional social work qualification, and the salary offered is up to £52,632 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must be registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience in social care field and relevant legislation understanding.

Responsibilities

• Form part of the management team and provide motivational leadership.
• Provide regular strengths-based supervision to social care staff.
• Undertake regular case file audits and identify training needs.
• Ensure the team works within legal framework and follows corporate values.

Skills

Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Good working knowledge of relevant legislation

Job description

Senior Social Worker – Adult Social Care

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £52,632 per annum.

• To form part of the management team for the service and provide motivational leadership, being visibly involved both in the office and online, working alongside staff and building relationships with practitioners.
• To provide regular strengths-based supervision to social care staff that empowers and supports practitioners to develop their practice, focussing on their skills, celebrating achievements, and making time for reflective discussions.
• To be able to explain the corporate values and behaviours to the service and to discuss equality, diversity, and inclusion with practitioners, challenging discrimination and raising issues of inequality.
• To undertake regular case file audits, use the outcomes to support the learning and professional development of the service, to identify training needs and ensure they are acted upon.
• To assist as required with the management of budgets by ensuring that throughput of work is consistent and that work steps are completed in a timely and effective way, including quality assuring and authorising assessments, support plans and reviews.
• To be up to date on our statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Human Rights Act and to ensure the team works within the legal framework.
• To encourage a positive attitude to risk and a no blame culture to support practitioners to take ownership of their practice in providing a social care service and facilitate innovation and creativity.
• To be able to clearly communicate the vision and priorities of the Department to the service and what they are hoping to achieve as well as how it contributes to achieving them.
• To be able to support practitioners to build the confidence and skills to work effectively with people, acting as a coach/mentor.
• To understand both Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people, and adults as they apply to the role within the council.
• The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

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, we are regretfully 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 has played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well as 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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