Social Worker

Sanctuary Personnel; Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames; Sur place; GBP 29 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sanctuary Personnel is seeking a permanent Social Worker to join the Support & Safeguarding Pods Team in Windsor & Maidenhead. The role is full-time and involves managing a caseload of children subject to protection plans, assessments, visits, and direct work to safeguard welfare.

You will work with partner agencies, participate in strategy discussions, and undertake conferences and reviews as needed. The ideal candidate will have a professional Social Work qualification, be registered or

Qualifications

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

Responsabilités

• Manage a caseload of children who may be subject to child protection plans, child in need plans, children in care plans and including children subject to care proceedings.
• Undertake visits to children and families and complete assessments and direct work to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Participate in strategy discussions (open cases), safety planning, attend child protection conferences, children in care reviews and child in need reviews.
• Investigate concerns regarding a child or young person's safety or wellbeing, assess risk and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
• Build effective relationships with children and families and work collaboratively with partner agencies.

Connaissances

Case management

Child protection knowledge

Legislation understanding

Formation

Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent

Description du poste

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Support & Safeguarding Pods Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Windsor & Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,798 per annum.

• The Social Worker will be based in the Support and Safeguarding Pods.
• As the allocated Social Worker, they will manage a caseload of children who may be subject to child protection plans, child in need plans, children in care plans and including children subject to care proceedings.
• They will undertake visits to children and families and complete assessments and direct work to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Other duties may include, having strategy discussions (open cases), safety planning, attending child protection conferences, children in care reviews and child in need reviews.
• Allocated social workers will also investigate concerns regarding a child or young person's safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
• A key part of the role entails building effective relationships with children and families and working collaboratively with our partner agencies.

Requirements of this 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.

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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