Social Worker, Recovery Team

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanctuary Personnel, based in Southend, is seeking a committed Social Worker to join the Recovery Team in a full-time permanent role. You will apply best practices, support recovery, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary colleagues to improve community outcomes.

The role requires a Social Work qualification, registration with Social Work England, and knowledge of relevant legislation. Salary up to £45,091 per annum, with opportunities for professional growth within a supportive agency.

Qualifications

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Responsibilities

• Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring 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.
• Promote high-quality, complex social work practice with a person-centred approach.
• Engage with people and stakeholders to improve services and reduce isolation in the community.

Skills

Knowledge of legislation

Education

Social Work qualification or equivalent

Social Work England registration

Job description

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £45,091 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.
• Promote critical reflection and participate in group work to ensure that the work environment is safe, responsive, flexible and emotionally capable.
• 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/groups 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.
• Become co-creators of change within the communities you serve and the system you work within.
• Communicate effectively including accurate records, written reports, appropriately reporting concerns to managers and external stakeholders when required.
• Be willing to develop your strengths and abilities to ensure you feel inspired and bale to take on the complexities of social work practice.
• Be willing to be a co-creator of change within the communities you serve and support the transformation of practice towards empowerment, change agency and asset-based community development.

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.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

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.

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