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Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel

Uxbridge

On-site

GBP 47,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their Children with Disabilities Team in Uxbridge. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families. The ideal candidate will demonstrate expert practice in complex situations and will be responsible for developing support plans, promoting well-being, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and help transform lives through your expertise.

Qualifications

A social work qualification or equivalent is required.
Must be registered with Social Work England.

Responsibilities

Engage with individuals and families to assess and promote independence.
Develop support plans using an asset-based approach.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work England registration

Education

Social Work Degree

Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £46,860 per annum.

* To engage with individuals, families, groups, and communities to assess and intervene and using professional judgment employ a range of interventions promoting choice, control, and independence.

* At this level the role holder will be more autonomous. They will demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk, striking a balance between support and control, liaising with a wide range of professionals, including more senior levels.

* The role holder will assist individuals, carers, and families to develop support plans to meet the outcome identified, using an asset-based approach and family, friends, and community options where appropriate and eligible needs are identified. They will actively encourage involvement and ownership of the support plan but to take a leadership role where appropriate and will give clear explanation of the use of Direct Payments so that informed decisions can be made.

* The role holder will actively promote wellbeing and independence, to enable individuals and carers to retain or regain their skills and confidence and prevent or delay deterioration. They will engage effectively with families to facilitate contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances.

* They will ensure that individuals, carers, and families have a clear understanding of the NHS Continuing Health Care process and support where required. They will also ensure compliance with the Care Act and other relevant legislation when using advocacy services and carrying out reviews, including mental capacity assessments.

* Where required, they will take the role of practice educator (or train as a practice educator) for social work students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.

Requirements of this Experienced Senior Social Worker job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This Experienced Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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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