Social Worker - Support & Safeguarding Pods - Maidenhead - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join the Support & Safeguarding Pods Team. This full-time role involves managing a caseload of children, conducting assessments, and working collaboratively with specialists to support families. Candidates should have a Social Work qualification, a good understanding of legislation, and be registered or eligible for registration. The position offers a salary of up to £47,798 per annum.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Good working knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Registered with the appropriate body or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of children with varying levels of need.
• Conduct regular assessments and write reports.
• Collaborate with specialists to support families.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social work qualification or equivalent

Registered or eligible for registration

Job description

Social Worker – Support & Safeguarding Pods

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Support & Safeguarding Pods Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Windsor & Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,798 per annum.

• As a Social Worker within the Safeguarding Team you will have the responsibility of managing a caseload of children, with varying levels of need and complexity.
• This includes regular assessment writing, threshold application, home visits, direct work, care planning, chairing meetings and case recording in line with our policies and procedures.
• Both the Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Teams work collaboratively with specialist workers based within the service to drive forward positive and sustainable change for families in creative ways.
• The Families Fist model is focused on preventing case escalation and keeping children safely at home.
• Safeguarding Social Workers have quick and direct access to Social Work Assistants, Family Support Workers, Family Coaches, Domestic Abuse Victim and Perpetrator specialists, Adult mental Health specialists, Drug and Alcohol specialists, and a Systemic Family Psychotherapist.
• In addition, every worker has easy access to their line manager, reflective supervision every four weeks and the opportunity to work within a supportive team environment.
• Achieving for Children works within a Signs of Safety Practice model.
• We strive to work alongside children and families to ensure they know why we are involved and what needs to change to make things safer for all.
• Our aim is to achieve realistic and long-lasting change by establishing support within the family and community network.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

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.

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