Senior Social Worker - Support & Family Safeguarding Team - Slough - Sanctuary Personal

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

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Social Worker for the Support & Family Safeguarding Team in Slough. This role involves working full-time, undertaking social work on allocated cases, developing effective relationships with children and families, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. The ideal candidate will possess a social work qualification and be familiar with statutory responsibilities. Competitive salary up to £54,537 per annum offered.

Qualifications

• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for undertaking social work on allocated cases.
• Develop effective relationships with children and their families.
• Complete financial assessments and determine service needs.

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Senior Social Worker – Support & Family Safeguarding Team

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

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

Responsibilities

• Responsible for undertaking social work on allocated cases producing outcome-based plans, having regard to the needs of, and risks to, children and their families.
• Develop effective relationships with CYP and their families to improve impact of work and determine the level of service available, ensuring written plans are agreed with the CYP and their families and reflect their views.
• Determine, using evidence-based practice, how these needs will be met subject to resources, statutory responsibilities, within the framework of council policies and procedures.
• Be responsible for effective individual performance in line with national standards and performance indicators, including receiving regular supervision.
• Participate in routine auditing activity across the service to secure the highest possible standards of social work practice and record keeping, and act in accordance with requirements of the Quality Assurance Framework.
• Ensure that the needs of service users/carers from all communities are addressed, with attention to equalities issues in all aspects of work; ensure access to translation and interpretation services as necessary.
• Complete financial assessments and, where appropriate, determine contributions and levels of need/service.
• With the agreement of the Social Work Team Manager/Practice Manager, identify resources required and available to promote child/family wellbeing.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships at appropriate levels with partner agencies (e.g., voluntary, community, schools, police, health, other statutory agencies/local resource networks) and internal partners.
• Work effectively to move casework to other areas of service as appropriate with a clear transfer plan.
• Contribute to the development of services to children and families and participate in team meetings to promote the delivery of integrated and effective services.
• Provide cover for the work of other team members and undertake projects and other additional duties commensurate with the level of the job.

Requirements

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• 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, 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 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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