Social Worker - MASH Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Slough; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job description

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,460 per annum.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of the child/young person at all times and throughout all aspects of work.
2. Be responsible for managing an independent workload, ensuring legislative requirements are met to a high standard and within required timescales.
3. Thoroughly assess, critically analyse, plan and implement suitable interventions for complex cases that fulfil statutory regulations, instigating proceedings and taking cases to court as required whilst effectively managing risk at all times and seeking support from senior team members when required.
4. Produce concise, well-structured assessments, plans and reports, clearly recording and reporting analysis and judgements and ensuring that all recommendations are followed.
5. Where cases are to be transferred to another service or partners, ensure that there is a clearly recorded transfer plan.
6. Maintain accurate, up to date, evidence-based records safely and confidentially, in line with statutory requirements.
7. Work with children, young people and families/carers to develop effective relationships through meaningful and purposeful direct work, actively seeking and understanding their needs and views to promote their participation in decision making and inform practice in assessment and planning in individual cases.
8. Work in partnership with colleagues and other agencies to deliver accessible and effective services, empowering parents and carers to develop and maintain safe parenting practices, leading meetings to achieve outcomes for children.
9. Be responsible for own individual performance in line with national standards, service and team specific performance indicators and actions required to address areas for improvements.
10. Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc. and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.
11. Provide cover for the work of other team members and take on other additional duties, as required.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.

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.

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.

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.