Social Worker - Referral and Assessment Team - Kingston upon Thames - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Social Worker for the Referral & Assessment Team in Kingston. Responsibilities include managing a caseload, safeguarding children and young people, and producing reports. Applicants need a Social Work Qualification and must be registered with Social Work England. A competitive salary is offered.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registered.
• Experience in safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Manage an agreed caseload of children and young people.
• Undertake direct social work responsibilities for assigned children and young people.
• Ensure provision of clear written reports for various meetings.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Communication skills

Critical reflection

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Social Worker – Referral and Assessment Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available a Social Work Practitioner within the Referral & Assessment Team to work full time based in Kingston.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,614 per annum.

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.
• To manage an agreed caseload of children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards.
• Undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
• To work to range of legal options to support investigation and protection and accommodation; if required give evidence in court; using contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances.
• To ensure the provision of clear written reports to child protection conferences, reviews, planning meetings and any other purpose as required, ensuring good quality casework analysis and risk assessment is evident throughout.
• Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to formulate care plans in partnership, based on their assessment of need, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to their planning.
• To ensure the planning and review of statutory work with children and young people is in accordance with statutory regulation and to produce written reports and other documentation for this purpose.
• Maintain an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. To make effective use of supervision and appraisal as an opportunity to critically reflect on casework and to identify learning and development needs to continually improve upon practice; and to support continual professional development.
• To establish and maintain good communication across children’s social care and with departments and agencies to facilitate the improvement and development of the service.
• Ensure the wellbeing of employees and service-users by actively promoting and complying with health and safety regulations, polices and procedures.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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

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. 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.