Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced 0-16 Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon.
Team/Specialism: Children in Care
Pay Rate: £38.50 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time. 36 hours per week.
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- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
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Duties:
- Undertake a range of statutory duties in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and in relation to children and their families who are in need/ in need of protection, and other child care services
- Manage a Children and Families caseload of various levels of complexity, including assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of appropriate action and to ensure that resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and their families
- Ensure and evidence that children, parents and family members are partners in assessment, planning and the delivery of help and services and this directly impacts on outcomes
- Promote a practice philosophy which seeks to empower service users, build on indivudal strengths, and develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to risk and to ensure assessments and plans reflect this
- Ensure that partner professionals and agencies are fully engaged and coordinated in assessment, planning and the delivery of help and services
- Contribute to the delivery of the Service’s engagement strategy and, depending on level, have responsibility for a particular relationship
- Build up a comprehensive knowledge of all available services and make full use of them through evidence-based matching
- Maintain records that evidence our engagement with children and families, informs the quality assurance framework e.g. quantitative, qualitative and outcome information for the children and families; the views and experiences of children and families
Requirements of the 0-16 Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Able to work outside of normal office hours when required and outside of the Borough
- Undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to employment and then every three years
- Working knowledge of national policy and developments regarding children’s social care, and policy areas that impact on children’s social care
- Demonstrable working knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures
- Able to engage and develop effective professional relationships with children and families to achieve sustainable positive outcomes
- Able to engage and develop effective professional relationships with other professionals and organisations for the benefit of individual children and families in assessment, care planning and delivery
- Ability to assess children and families holistically in relation to their need for support and/or protection from harm
- Able to make sound professional judgments
- Able to develop, implement and review evidence-based multi- agency care plans which focus on and successfully deliver safety and well-being outcomes for children
- Able to communicate to a high standard verbally and in writing, and to produce and present high quality reports
- Able to comply in practice with statutory requirements and guidance, and local procedures and standards
- Experience of working in a statutory setting with children and making professional judgments that deliver improved outcomes
- Evidence of building effective relationships with children, families and other professionals
- Experience of effective analytical assessments and outcomes- focussed care plans
Contact:
This 0-16 Social Worker job is advertised by Michael Bowen; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
