Social Worker - Child Protection - Southend-on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for an Experienced Social Worker to join the Child Protection Team in Southend-on-Sea. In this full-time role, you will manage cases of children and families, provide crisis support, and work alongside foster families to improve outcomes. A relevant social work qualification and registration with Social Work England are required. This position offers a salary of up to £37,890 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must have a social work qualification or equivalent.
• Registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of identified children and families.
• Support foster carers and families in maintaining placements.
• Provide intensive support to families in crisis.
• Work side by side with families using established methodologies.
• Conduct full assessments of family needs.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work England registered

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Experienced Social Worker within the Child Protection Team to work full time based in Southend on Sea.

The salary for this permanent Best Interest Assessor role is up to £37,890 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To hold a caseload of identified children and families.
• To support foster carers and families in a way which enables them to feel able to maintain difficult placements and improve both the quality of life and life chances for the adolescents within them.
• To provide intensive and rapid support when a family breaks down (including foster families) with the aim of keeping the family together.
• To work intensively with families to keep their children out of care, to prevent becoming looked after and with identified foster families where the placement is assessed as risk of breaking down.
• To work intensively with identified adolescents in order to better meet their needs.
• To support children and families within the family home including foster homes, within the school and within the community.
• To work side by side with families, foster carers and their Social Workers, using proven methodologies such as motivational interviewing and brief solution-focused therapy; supporting families to address issues that may result in the removal of their children.
• To work outside of normal working hours to meet the needs of the service as and when required.
• To undertake full and through assessments of family’s needs and strengths and collate multi-agency information.
• To provide full and through support to families in order for them to meet their Support Plan targets and collate multi-agency information.
• To provide and deliver inclusive intervention packages working in conjunction with communities.
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation is completed in line with requirements.
• To prepare and present reports.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact

Contact: This Best Interest Advisor 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.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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

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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