Social Worker - Prevention Team - Southend-on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Adult Social Worker to join the Prevention Team in Southend. The role involves driving high-quality social work practice, engaging with the community to address isolation, and maintaining crucial stakeholder relationships. Candidates should possess a relevant Social Work qualification and experience in the field, along with a commitment to professional development.

Qualifications

• Minimum relevant Social Work experience required.
• Ability to engage with individuals and communities essential.
• Willingness to undertake leadership training as needed.

Responsibilities

• Act as a catalyst for change in social work practice.
• Engage with community to reduce isolation and disconnection.
• Maintain relationships with primary care professionals and stakeholders.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social work ethics

Effective communication

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,693 per annum.

• Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring that solutions and outcomes are based on recognised best practice and innovation.
• Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participating in effective team working.
• Be an exemplar for high quality complex social work practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person-centred approach.
• Embrace a culture of active engagement and co-production across the team, community and system wide.
• Engage with people on all levels when considering how services are delivered with an onus on co-production.
• Participate in community engagement and cohesion to effectively reduce adults and families who are experiencing isolation, loneliness, marginalisation and disconnection.
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders who are crucial to creating a better Southend, including General Practitioners (GPs), other primary care professionals, hospital staff and community leaders/grounds relevant to the locality.
• Apply a strengths/asset-based approach to practice, both in terms of individual assessments, care plans and reviews and the culture within the team.
• Promote social work values, ethics and commit to ensuring that individuals are at the centre of practice.
• Develop your strengths, abilities and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on the complexities of practice.
• Embrace positive risk assessment and decision making to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice.
• Communicate effectively including accurate records, written reports, appropriately reporting concerns to manager and external stakeholders when required.
• Be willing to develop your strengths and abilities to ensure you feel inspired and able to take on the complexities of social work practice.
• Undertake leadership training as required to maximise the skill-set required to embrace change and drive Southend Borough Council towards a learning organisation.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Relevant Social Work experience.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.