Social Worker - Duty & Assessment Team - Maidenhead - Sanctuary Personal

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

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Social Worker in Maidenhead to join the Duty & Assessment Team. The ideal candidate will have a professional Social Work qualification and experience working with families. Key responsibilities include conducting child protective investigations and supporting children through services. The position offers up to £47,798 per annum.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with families.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Conduct child protective investigations.
• Chair complex meetings.
• Engage in direct work with children.

Skills

Child protective investigations

Court work

Care planning

Team collaboration

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Duty & Assessment Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Windsor & Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,798 per annum.

Responsibilities

• As a Social Worker within the Assessment Team, you will have proven experience encompassing the skills and knowledge in working with families.
• Experience in working with children and families will include, confidence in undertaking child protective investigations, alongside safety and contingency planning, court work and pre-proceedings experience including report writing, statements and care planning, child focussed direct work that role models creatively and purposefulness, experience in working with children throughout a journey of statutory services, including becoming looked after, and having the confidence in chairing complex meetings.
• The role will work effectively within a team environment, supporting colleagues and sharing good practice related to interventions and work in an agile way.
• We trust that you will do your best in all the work that you do. To support this, you will provide with digital technology to work in an agile way and in engaging with children and young people.
• The role will receive reflective supervision provided through 1-1 and group learning experiences using our Signs of Safety framework to guide your work and approach as a Social Worker alongside regular supervision sessions.

Requirements

• 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

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.

EDI and Inclusion

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. 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.