Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the MASH Team to work full time based in Swindon.
The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Worker job is up to £46,549 per annum.
Main duties:
- Undertake assessments, determine care packages/support plans and manage a large and complex caseload to maintain or improve the wellbeing of individuals in line with agreed service procedures and national legislation. Professionally supervise and support other colleagues.
- Participate in and where appropriate chair meetings of internal/external partners and other agencies.
- Take a lead role in promoting safeguarding within the team in line with Swindon policy and procedures or safeguarding.
- Manage a caseload of complex work, using person-centred practice principles to assess, support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk taking of individuals.
- Ensure that personal practice is in line with current legislation and local policies and procedures, as relevant to the role.
- Ability to manage and resolve complex and high-risk situations using negotiations and diplomacy, involving individuals, their families, or staff groups, seeking support from senior manager when required.
- Promote, develop and model high quality social work practice including working within statutory responsibilities, evidence based practice and comply with professional standards required.
- Provide professional support to social workers, assistant team managers and other team members, including development of skills, knowledge and experience and addressing performance issues.
- Provide statutory support to children and families with support, which includes information and advice, assessment, support planning and safeguarding.
- Undertake assessments of needs, risks and options for children and young people with the most complex/high risk care needs and/or circumstances, in accordance with legislation requirements.
- Hold case management responsibility for a caseload, develop appropriate packages or programmes of care, devise written plans for intervention and/or care for children and their families including child protection plans in line with child protection procedures.
Requirements of this role:
- Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
- Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
- Experience of community and/or group work.
- Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Advanced Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
