Social Worker - Disabled Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Northampton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanctuary Personnel is hiring a Social Worker for the Disabled Children Team in Northampton. The position involves assessing and supporting families with complex social care needs, ensuring children’s safety, and collaborating with various professionals. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a positive impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Current Social Work England Registration required.
• Experience within Children's Services is necessary.
• Full Drivers Licence and access to a vehicle needed.

Responsibilities

• Assess and support children and families with complex social care needs.
• Work collaboratively with professionals to improve family well-being.
• Maintain accurate records of case activities and decisions.

Skills

Assessment

Support

Relationship Building

Child Protection

Education

Degree or equivalent in Social Work

Job description

Northampton , Northamptonshire , England
NN2

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £37,237 per annum.

* Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy and guidance.

* Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or wellbeing of children at risk of abuse or neglect.

* Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally to help children, young people and families improve and gain control of their lives when safety or ability to participate in their community is restricted.

* Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children, adults and families as appropriate, including intervention when information or circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers.

* Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them.

* Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.

* Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity, for example, working with people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities or diminished capacity.

* Maintain up to date, accurate and high quality records of activity on cases. Participate in a range of planning and decision making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews.

* Act as Practice Educators for social work qualifying course students on practice placements (as appropriate) or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers completing their ASYE.

* Working with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.

* Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students and newly qualified social workers, as and when required.

* Contribute to development of organisational capability by taking ownership of your own training and development, including identifying and taking part in training and development activity and responding to feedback on performance.

* Work as part of project or process teams as required under the new operating model, ensuring excellent cross functional output.

Requirements of The Social Worker Job.

* Degree or equivalent in Social Work.

* Current Social Work England Registration.

* Experience within Children's Services.

* Full Drivers Licence and have use of a vehicle.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.

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