Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel; Slough; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker for the Children with Disabilities Team in Slough. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children and families. You will manage a diverse caseload, ensuring compliance with legislation while promoting the wellbeing of children and young people. Your responsibilities will include conducting thorough assessments, leading team meetings, and providing support to students. Join a forward-thinking agency that values diversity and inclusion, and be part of a team dedicated to making a difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Must have a Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of legislation and registration requirements.

Responsibilities

• Promote and safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people.
• Manage a complex workload and ensure compliance with legislation.
• Conduct assessments and implement interventions for complex cases.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Case management

Critical analysis

Risk management

Education

Social Work Degree

Job description

Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £54,537 per annum.

1. Promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of the child/young person at all times and through all aspects of work.
2. Be responsible for managing a complex and independent workload, ensuring legislative requirements are met to a high standard and within required timescales.
3. Take responsibility for a student working in Slough Children First, carrying out their supervising alongside the Assistant Team Manager.
4. Take a strong role in team meetings so that they are efficient and effective, leading team meetings as required in place of the Assistant Team Manager and Team Manager.
5. Thoroughly assess, critically analyse, plan and implement suitable interventions for complex cases that fulfil statutory regulations, instigating proceedings and taking cases to court as required whilst effectively managing risk at all times.
6. Produce concise, well-structured assessments, plans and reports, clearly recoding and reporting analysis and judgements and ensuring that all recommendations are followed.
7. Maintain accurate, up to date, evidence-based records safely and confidentially, in line with statutory requirements.
8. Work with children, young people and families/carers to develop effective relationships through meaningful and purposeful direct work, actively seeking and understanding their needs and views to promote their participation in decision making and inform practice in assessment and planning.
9. Be responsible for own individual performance in line with national standards, service and team specific performance indicators and actions required to address areas for improvement.
10. Participate in and learn from routine observation, review and auditing activity conducted by the Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager to secure the highest possible standards of social work practice.
11. Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.
12. Provide cover for the work of other team members as required, undertake specific project, and other additional duties as required.

Requirements of a Senior Social Worker job:

1. A 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 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.

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.