Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Experienced Social Worker within the Adult Learning Disability Team to work full time based in Swindon.
The salary for this permanent Experienced Social Worker job is up to £45,459 per annum.
Main duties:
- As a Social Worker, you will join us in Adult Social Care in a friendly, supportive and dynamic team, bringing a particular interest in and focus on Adult Safeguarding.
- This role will see you closely with the residents of Swindon and their families as well as a number of professionals including health, provider services, safeguarding and mental health colleagues.
- The Adult Social Care Teams support adults living in Swindon and you will be responsible for completing Care Act Assessments and proportionate support living. In addition, you will be undertaking S42 Enquiries and ensuring appropriate protection plans. You will follow the care management process of reviews, completing Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decisions.
- As a Social Worker in the Learning Disability Team, your role will often require joint working with the Specialist Health Service for people with learning disabilities, to provide a multi-disciplinary, strength-based approach.
- As well as managing a caseload, from time to time you may be required to support the duty team by providing back up cover on the team rota.
- Monthly supervision will be provided to you with access to support from your colleagues including Experienced and Advanced Social Workers as well as the Assistant Team Manager and Team Manager.
- To provide statutory support to adults with care and support needs and their carers/families, which includes information and advice, assessment, support planning and safeguarding.
- To undertake person-centred social work with individuals and to plan for the provision of support and/or services with them in order to assist them to meet their outcomes and to live as independently as possible.
- To fully engage and prepare for own supervision and appraisal through self-evaluation, ensuring that continual professional development is evidenced.
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 Experienced Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.
