Social Worker - Ageing Well West Team - Southend-on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Adult Social Worker for a permanent role in Southend. The position offers a salary of up to £42,403 per annum. Responsibilities include driving change, engaging with stakeholders, and promoting high-quality social work practices. Candidates must hold a Social Work Qualification and have relevant experience in social work. This role supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Act as a catalyst for change ensuring best practices.
• Lead through example in communication style and values.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders to improve services.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Relevant Social Work experience

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Ageing Well West Team to work Full Time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,403 per annum.

• Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring that solutions and outcomes are based on recognised best practice and innovation.
• Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participation in effective team working.
• Be an exemplar for high quality complex social work practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person-centred approach.
• Embrace a culture of active engagement and co-production across the team, community and system wide.
• Engage with people on all levels when considering how services are delivered with an onus on co-production.
• Participate effective relationships with stakeholders who are crucial to creating a better Southend, including General Practitioners (GPs), other primary care professionals, hospital staff and community leaders/groups relevant to the locality.
• Apply a strengths/asset-based approach to practice, both in terms of individual assessments, care plans and reviews and the culture within the team.
• Promote social work values, ethics and commit to ensuring that individuals are at the centre of practice.
• Develop your strengths, abilities and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on the complexities of practice.
• Embrace positive risk assessment and decision making to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice.
• Communicate effectively including accurate records, written reports, appropriately reporting concerns to managers and external stakeholders when required.
• Be willing to develop your strengths and abilities to ensure you feel inspired and able to take on the complexities of social work practice.

Requirements

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

Contact

This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.