Social Worker - Specialist Adolescents

Sanctuary Personnel; Brighton; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job description

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,213 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy and guidance.
2. Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or well-being of children at risk of abuse or neglect.
3. Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally to help children, young people and families improve and gain control of their lives.
4. Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children, adults and families as appropriate.
5. Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them.
6. Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.
7. Promote autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable.
8. Maintain up to date, accurate and high quality records of activity on cases.
9. Participate in a range of planning and decision-making forums including case discussions and child protection conferences.
10. Act as Practice Educators for social work qualifying course students on practice placements or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers.
11. Work with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.
12. Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff.
13. Contribute to development of organisational capability by taking ownership of training and development.
14. Work as part of project or process teams as required under the new operating model.

Requirements:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.

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.