Sanctuary Personnel, a committed and competitive recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Children’s Social Work Head of Commissioning to fill a full-time role based in South East England.
The pay rate for this locum Head of Commissioning job is £450 per day and is an initial 3-month contract.
Duties:
- Take professional responsibility as directed for managing a caseload which will include individuals, children, families and carers who require support and guidance
- Enable them to identify their needs and plan support to meet those needs using the full range of options, seeking advice and support where appropriate
- Work throughout the year towards taking on a full case load
- Assessment and Review
- Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation
- Take on more complex work with support from supervision
- Provide information, advice and guidance in line with current national legislation and to recognise the need for, and appropriately signpost to other agencies, services or providers
- Safeguarding
- Where relevant and with support undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding
- Staff Development
- Share and present professional knowledge and expertise to colleagues within the team
- Use Professional reflective supervision to develop skills and knowledge
- Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis and judgements, maintaining up to date case work records on the database as required by Surrey County Council
- Take responsibility for working within the Directorate's data protection policies
- Uphold the values and behaviours of the organisation
- Work inclusively, with a diverse range of stakeholders and promote equality of opportunity
- Maintain high standards of Health, Safety and Welfare at work and take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others
Requirements of the Head of Commissioning:
- Relevant professional qualification and registration
- Up to date knowledge of relevant national and local policy and statutory guidance and legislation in relation to the provision of social care services
- A sound knowledge of social care processes and responsibilities in line with personalisation, self directed support and person centred planning
- An understanding of the principles of confidentiality and information governance and how these apply to social care
- An understanding of diversity and how it affects practice
- Ability to communicate appropriately and in a timely way with individuals, carers families, other professionals and team members which is clear, fluent, concise and jargon free and in a courteous calm and professional manner
- Ability to routinely explain professional reasoning, judgements and decisions made and record these in a clear concise way
- Ability to write assessment documents, letters, emails and reports in a way that is clear and easily understood by anyone reading them
- Ability to co-operate and work well with others, support colleagues both within and outside of the team and contribute to the successful achievement of team goals, sharing information and learning whilst supporting others
- Competent in the use of basic IT skills
- Competent in the use of basic numeracy skills with the ability to understand and explain basic cost information
- Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision making
- Understand the forms of harm and their impact on people and be able to identify safeguarding concerns
- Successfully complete your Assessed And Supported Year In Employment
- Relevant professional qualification and registration where required plus substantial experience at a senior management level in specialist area
- Extensive, sophisticated and up to date working knowledge of relevant national and local policy, statutory guidance and legislation in relation to the provision of Health and Social Care services
- Comprehensive knowledge and awareness of broader contextual factors affecting national service delivery
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 Head of Commissioning job is advertised by Billy Holland; 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.
