Social Worker - Family Support & Safeguarding Team - Osney - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Oxford; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Social Worker for the Family Support & Safeguarding Team based in Oxfordshire. This Full-Time position involves providing services to children and families, preparing reports, and participating in legal processes. Candidates must have a Social Work Qualification or equivalent and be registered or eligible for registration.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient services to children, young people, and families.
• Prepare and submit written reports including legal reports.
• Attend conferences, reviews, and court as required.
• Liaise with other agencies and ensure child’s voice is included.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Registered or eligible for registration

Job description

Social Worker - Adults Multi-Disciplinary Team

Social Worker – Family Support & Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Support & Safeguarding Team Team to work Full Time based in Oxfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £49,282per annum.

• Provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people, and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed, and that relevant interventions are provided where needed, in a timely way.
• To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including child protection conference reports and legal reports for care proceedings.
• To attend conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting plans clearly, with professionalism and integrity.
• To ensure the Assistant/Team Manager is kept fully apprised of significant information about allocated families, seeking advice as and when necessary.
• To attend group supervision when required and to ensure that relevant updates are provided before each group supervision session.
• To attend individual supervision when required and engage in continual professional development as recommended by the Assistant/Team Manager.
• To use ICT to maintain accurate case records, and to be able to record activity in line with key performance management data.
• To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the Council’s policies and procedures.
• To practice in line with the Council’s procedures and statutory regulation in supporting children who come into the care of the local authority.
• To be familiar with and committed to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice and the council policy and plan and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team, workplace, and wider organisation.
• To proactively liaise with and work in partnership other agencies and organisations, parents and carers.
• To ensure that the child’s voice is considered in all casework and included in all assessments and plans.
• To promote the involvement of young service users and families in meeting about them, and where possible, in service development.
• Comply with OCC health and safety policies, procedures, and rules, taking reasonable care of self and others.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

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

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Neil Clements; 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.