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

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Social Worker for the Children in Need Team. The role involves leading statutory cases, assessing children in need, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates must be Social Work England registered and hold a social work qualification. A passion for improving children's welfare is essential. Competitive salary up to £43,647 per annum.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registered.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead professional in statutory cases requiring a qualified social worker.
• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams around the child.
• Establish collaborative working with health and social care practitioners.

Skills

Child protection

Assessment and planning

Collaborative working

Evidence-based practice

Multi-disciplinary approach

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Tools

Electronic case recording/reporting tool

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 Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,647 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases.
• Undertake the full range of social work tests with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review.
• Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
• Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adults services.
• Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres and other settings.
• Develop a good understanding of evidence based practice and integrate models of best practice into day to day service delivery.
• Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
• Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
• Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
• Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.
• Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.
• Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventive and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
• Demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children’s System.
• Promote and demonstrate the meaningful participation of children, young people and parents/carers in the process of APIR, in all aspects of decision making and in shaping service delivery.
• Understand, promote and integrate into practice Council policies in relation to valuing diversity and promoting equalities.
• Consider and put forward ideas for improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of Council services to children and families.
• Contribute to the review of Council policies and procedures, particularly guidance and protocols for social workers.
• Enhance and promote the reputation of the Council as a provider of high quality services to children and families.

Requirements

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

Contact

This 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, 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.