Social Worker - Children in Need Team - Leicester - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a qualified Social Worker for a full-time position in the Children in Need Team, focused on managing complex cases involving child protection. Key responsibilities include assessing needs, planning interventions, and liaising with partner agencies. Applicants must hold a professional Social Work qualification and have an understanding of relevant legislation. The salary is up to £44,711 per annum.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Manage an allocated social work caseload with complex issues.
• Make judgements and decisions on high complexity cases.
• Plan and implement interventions for children and families.
• Liaise with partner agencies for support services.
• Chair multi-agency meetings for Child Protection Plans.

Skills

Professional Social Work qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children in Need Team to work Full Time based in Leicester.

The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £44,711 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Manage an allocated social work caseload of highly complex issues regularly featuring child protection issues and the Public Law Outline processes.
• Make, and implement, judgements and decisions with autonomy on cases with high levels of complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge with the oversight of the manager.
• Plan and implement interventions designed to address needs and reduce risk.
• Liaise with partner agencies to secure support services for children and their families.
• Manage/chair a range of multi-agency meetings designated to monitor and progress Child Protection Plans.
• Keep contemporaneous records on work undertaken, maintain up to date casefiles and produce written reports.
• Assessments are undertaken with accuracy, consideration and professionalism and enable the views of children and their families to be heard and incorporated into plans and interventions. There is clarity in any risks identified and what will be required to reduce risk.
• Explore and understand the views of others and adapt a style and behaviour as necessary to ensure positive outcomes. Show respect for the views of others by recognising their contribution and valuing diversity.
• Develop positive trusting relationships within and outside the team, treating people with fairness and respect.
• Inspire others by creating opportunities to be creative and innovative, support their development and encourage autonomy to enable them to do their best work.
• Progress of interventions is actively monitored and remedial action taken where necessary to ensure the best possible outcomes for children and their families.
• Local policy and procedure enables the service to work effectively and efficiently and meet the needs of children and families, in accordance with legislation and best practice.

Requirements

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• 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.

Contact

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.