Social Worker - Children with Disabilities - Croydon - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Croydon; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker to join the Children with Disabilities Team in Croydon. The role involves managing complex cases, engaging with families, and collaborating with various agencies to provide effective support. Candidates must have a Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. This permanent position offers a salary of up to £47,860 per annum.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Carry a number of complex cases including care proceedings.
• Liaise with other agencies to provide effective children’s services.
• Engage with children and families to build quality relationships.

Skills

Complex case management

Partnership working

Empowerment of service users

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Social Worker – Children with Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in Croydon.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker job is up to £47,860 per annum.

Main Duties:

• Carry a number of complex cases including care proceedings and make assessments of need, plan appropriate resources and monitor and review in line with the policy framework.
• Liaise with other agencies in providing effective children’s services to individuals and families and develop effective partnership working.
• To provide informal support to less experienced and qualified SW’s in the team and to contribute to on the job training in relation to team policies and procedures and induction arrangements.
• To engage children and families an build a quality of relationship that directly impacts on outcomes.
• Promote a practice philosophy which seeks to empower service users, build on individual strengths, and develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to risk and to ensure assessments and plans reflect this.
• To contribute to the delivery of the Service’s engagement strategy and, depending on level, have responsibility for a particular relationships.
• To build up a comprehensive knowledge of all available services and make full use of them through evidence-based matching.
• To maintain records that evidence our engagement with children and families, informs the quality assurance framework e.g. quantitative, qualitative and outcome information for the children and families; the views and experiences of children and families.
• To contribute to quality assurance exercises and actively as part of the service’s quality assurance framework.

Requirements of this Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker job:

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

Contact: Sanctuary Personnel is handling this vacancy. If you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, 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 has contributed to winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards and 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.

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