Social Worker - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 43,000; Full time

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children Team to work Full Time based in Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £42,248 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide professional leadership, specialist Social Work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations, in relation to our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People.
2. Through the intervention of assessment, identify and respond to needs, build on strengths, ensuring that analysis is robust and leads to clear outcomes that can be met through appropriate SMART plans.
3. Demonstrate good analytical, interviewing and observational skills, to ensure the voice of the child is heard and is used to inform all assessments, decision making and interventions.
4. To demonstrate sound written skills through the provision of coherent, analytical and evidence-based reports and plans for a variety of forums, including court and Age Assessments for the Home Office, which are child focused and reflect the impact of the child's lived experience.
5. Maintain and update knowledge regarding social policy and social work practice, be fully informed of organisational policy and procedures, relevant legislation and statutory guidance.
6. To contribute to the development of integrated services and policy and to promote new ways of developing service user care, taking account of national initiatives and practice standards.
7. Share information about children with other agencies in order to safeguard them and promote their welfare as appropriate.
8. Share knowledge and expertise with peers to support the development of a confident and skilled workforce.
9. Keep and maintain accurate service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.
10. Carry out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with Social Work England Professional Standards, the Professional Capability Framework and Cambridgeshire County Council's values, Lives over services, Collaborative, Creative and Aspirational, Accountable.

Requirements:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.

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 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 role 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.