Adults Social Worker

Location Bolsover
Job type Contract
Salary £25 - 30 per hour
Reference 167413

Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company to the private and public sector has a locum vacancy for an Adults Social Worker to work 37 hours per week based in Bolsover.

The pay rate for this locum Adults Social Worker job is £25 - £30 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.

Shift Pattern:

  • 09:00 am – 17:00 pm

Duties:

  • Provide a social work service that supports individuals and communities to achieve their potential
  • Work in partnership with individuals to identify needs and to develop plans and responses which meet those needs
  • Act on behalf of vulnerable individuals to safeguard their health and wellbeing
  • Effectively manage a designated caseload to achieve the best outcomes for individuals, groups and communities
  • Provide leadership and expertise to empower individuals, groups and communities to achieve identified change
  • Build and sustain relationships with individuals and communities
  • Represent the needs of vulnerable people
  • Work with individuals, their carers and their advocates, where appropriate, in the assessment of individuals needs and the provision of appropriate services/resources
  • Work with individuals to identify the aims and objectives of proposed interventions
  • Produce care plans with individuals and ensure their effective implementation
  • Provide social work with homeless and potentially homeless persons/families
  • Act as a Duty Officer
  • Assist in the inductions of newly qualified social work employees
  • Provide consultation to other social worker staff on a particular specialism
  • Supervise and assess social worker students or trainees
  • Record all work undertaken and prepare reports/assessments
  • Accept responsibility, with the line manager, for reviewing work on caseloads at regular intervals
  • Closure and transfer of cases
  • Ensure that the quality of service provided to and on behalf of individuals meets agreed quality standards
  • Maintain effective contacts with all providers of care and other people responsible for relevant community resources
  • Initiating, where necessary, multi-disciplinary meetings for the coordination of complex care arrangements including safeguarding
  • Undertake financial assessment role, where required
  • Seek to ensure income maximisation for people

Requirements of the Adults Social Worker:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant senior level frontline experience within Adults’ Services

Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:

  • Daily payroll
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
  • Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place after 100 hours of work has been completed
  • Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
  • Clinical governance support with a specialist safeguarding team
  • In-house payroll system
  • Free digital copy of the Social Work News Magazine

Contact: 

This Adults Social Worker job is advertised by Paige Westbrook; 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.