Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker - MASH Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Northampton; On-site; GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker to lead the MASH Team in Northamptonshire. The role offers a salary of up to £46,704 per annum plus a £4,000 bonus. Responsibilities include decision-making on children's cases, providing leadership, and developing partnerships with agencies. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Social Work and be registered as a Social Worker.

Qualifications

• Have direct accountability for making decisions on children's cases.
• Deliver professional leadership for staff within a Service Team.
• Understanding of SW legislation.

Responsibilities

• Make decisions on children's cases referred to the MASH.
• Ensure safeguarding within agreed timelines.
• Develop partnerships with other agencies.

Skills

Decision-making

Leadership

Multi-agency collaboration

Case file auditing

Education

Degree or equivalent in Social Work

Registered as Social Worker

Job description

Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker - MASH Team

Northampton , Northamptonshire , England
NN2

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker within the MASH Team to work full time based in Northamptonshire.

The salary for this Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker job is up to £46,704 per annum, not including a £4,000 welcome bonus.

* Have direct accountability for making decisions on children's cases referred to the MASH and determine actions required and apply appropriate thresholds for statutory intervention to ensure that children are safeguarded within agreed Working Together timescales.

* Deliver professional leadership for staff within a Service Team, organise and delegate the workload of MASHOs providing induction, line management, professional development and daily operational supervision of support staff, in situations of high complexity ensuring a high standard of service delivery.

* To ensure that equal opportunities and health and safety policies are fully integrated into the daily working of the team.

* To improve the quality of casework by undertaking case file audits and ensuring learning from audit activity and formal observations of daily practice is implemented into social work practice.

* To provide the Team Manager with accurate information and assist the Team Manager with establishing, maintaining and utilising information systems to ensure best practice as part of a robust quality assurance system and to inform performance and budget management of the team and organisation.

* Working within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context, to develop effective working partnerships with other agencies and service involved to ensure that positive outcomes are achieve in all key areas of service user's lives.

* Ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons, and to comply with the policies and procedures relating to health and safety within the department. To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.

* Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker job:

* Degree or equivalent in Social Work.

* Registered as Social Worker.

* Understanding of the SW legislation.

Contact:

This Senior Social Worker/MASH Decision Maker 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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