Social Worker/Experienced Worker- Family Support Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Bedford; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job description

Social Worker/Experienced Worker- Family Support Team

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £38,553 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. To work within the values of the Department as expressed within the Care Act and 'Putting People First', promoting autonomy, independence, choice, and wellbeing.
2. To manage a workload independently, seeking and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties, exercising higher judgements and a degree of autonomy in situations of complexity, risk, uncertainty, and challenge.
3. To accept responsibility and work with individuals facing complex social and family crises, undertake a range of assessments and safeguarding inquiries relating to vulnerable adults.
4. To work in collaboration with service users to assess their needs and produce a statement of identified needs.
5. To assist in deciding which of the range of options will be offered to the service user and to carry out necessary tasks to implement planned action.
6. To work in collaboration with staff from other agencies, such as Health, Education, Police, as well as service providers from within the Department or from the Private or Voluntary Sector.
7. To maintain appropriate and up-to-date records on work undertaken in accordance with the Departmental policy and to adhere to confidentiality and Data Protection policies.
8. To attend case conferences and meetings as required and produce reports as necessary.
9. To be responsible for monitoring, on an ongoing basis, the delivery of the service to users.
10. To contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of services.
11. To ensure the requirements of the Complaints Procedure are complied with and, if required, respond to complaints.
12. To carry out duties in accordance with Council and Departmental policies and procedures.
13. To act in accordance with and be aware of statutory obligations, equality duties, and anti-discriminatory practice.
14. To undertake any other duties of a similar level and responsibility as may be required from time to time.

Requirements:

1. A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.
4. Experience within Adult Social Work.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.

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.

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.