Social Worker - Children's Safeguarding Team - Barnwell St Andrew - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Social Worker for its Children’s Safeguarding Team in Guernsey. The role involves managing child protection cases, conducting assessments, and collaborating with families and agencies. Applicants should have a recognized Social Work Qualification and knowledge of relevant legislation. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential. This position offers a salary of up to £66,950 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant child protection legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration with a governing body.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of children in need and child protection cases.
• Conduct assessments and produce child’s plans within timescales.
• Participate in court processes and present cases as required.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Registered or eligible for registration

Job description

Social Worker – Children’s Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children’s Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Guernsey.

The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £66,950 per annum.

• Hold a caseload of children in need, child protection, child-care proceedings and care requirement cases.
• Assess the needs of children and families using theoretical frameworks in order to produce, appropriately monitor and review child’s plans (single assessment). These will be within agreed timescales according to need.
• Undertake short-term or longer-term specific pieces of work as directed following the completion of child’s plans or as a result of child-protection registration.
• Respond to child protection concerns via the implementation and monitoring of robust child-protection plans and undertake any assessment or investigation as required by the team manager on any allocated cases.
• Ensure that child protection and child in need procedures are adhered to.
• Provide effective evidence-based interventions to families where children are in need of protection and present such cases to child protection conferences.
• Present cases to and attend court and the Child Youth & Community Tribunal as required.
• Prepare reports and represent Children’s Health and Social Care both orally and in writing in an appropriate manner at all times.
• Prepare assessments, statements and care plans for court and where required give evidence in court. This may also include making long-term plans for performance for those children who require such intervention.
• Work in partnership with parents, colleagues and other agencies ensuring the child is central to any process.
• Ensure Health & Social Care policies, procedures and legislation are adhered to.
• Actively participate in monthly supervision sessions with line manager.
• Participate in a duty back up rota system for cases held within the teams.
• Participate in the Emergency Duty Service rota.
• Undertake any other duties as may be determined by the Head of Service, Children and Family Community Service, from time to time.

Requirements of this Social Worker:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.