Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Advanced Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work full time based in South Gloucestershire.
The salary for this Advanced Social Worker job is up to £32,234 annum.
Main duties:
- Carry out assessment of needs, providing advice and guidance to service users and their carers, in order to establish care plans where appropriate, ensuring that services are effective and meet legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
- Review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision, responding to changing needs and renegotiating service provision where appropriate.
- Manage own caseload of specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
- Support the delivery of designated areas of work by coordinating day to day operation sand contributing to developing projects and processes.
- Raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments where appropriate, in order to ensure that needs are assessed and appropriate action is taken.
- Develop and evaluate reablement programmes as part of care packages ensuring that programmes to support independence are implemented.
- Liaise and work with contacts from different sectors, including health and the voluntary sector, sometimes as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
- Complete and present records and reports in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
- Take necessary action in accordance with Safeguarding procedures in order to protect vulnerable children and young people.
- Make recommendations for significant budget speed ensuring that maximum value is delivered for the resources deployed and contribute to budget management. This will ensure that the maximum value is delivered for the resources deployed.
- Represent the Council’s interests that the Council’s position is advocated.
Requirements of this Advanced Social Worker job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Advanced 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 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.
