Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Safeguarding Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Coalville.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding
Pay Rate: £38 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
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Duties:
- Work within practice framework and apply practice standards and procedures
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with families, enabling them to care for their children – at all times ‘working with’ – not ‘doing to’
- Work cooperatively with children’s services, health agencies and other community services to provide the most effective care for children, young people and their families and within their communities
- Seek and use supervision and other professional support to ensure critical reflection and use of analysis are integrated with professional judgement and reasoned discernment
- Provide timely thorough assessments of need, drawing on multiple sources of theoretical knowledge, evidence and best practice to make informed judgements
- Enable families to develop plans that will achieve change required
- Monitor plans to ensure change is sustainable and children’s day to day lives improve, maintaining professional curiosity throughout
- Ensure plans and records are written to children and families are meaningfully involved in everything that is happening
- Routinely contribute to the departmental quality assurance and improvement work (audit and practice observations for example) and work with others to ensure that learning from these activities is disseminated and applied in practice
- Contribute to a ‘learning organisation’ by taking personal responsibility for continuous professional development
- Keep up to date in relation to practice research about children, young people and family working using resources including the Learning Hub, Signs of Safety Knowledge bank and Research in Practice
- Contribute to the learning and development of others including the mentoring of ASYE colleagues and as a level two social worker commence practice educator training PE1 and as level 3 complete PE2 training
- Be responsible for high quality Court reports and case note recording (as if to the child), and family friendly report writing
Requirements of the Safeguarding Social Worker:
- Recognised qualification in Social Work (Degree, PGDIP, MA/MSc)
- Registered with Social Work England and ensure registration is maintained and renewed appropriately
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- Be open to self-reflection and challenge
- Understand that diversity characterises and shapes experience and is critical to identity
- Recognise the complexity and diversity of experience and apply this in practice developing a range of ways to proportionately challenge both self and others as well as reflect on the use/misuse of power
- Willing to undertake a DBS check
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in the BASW professional framework
- Knowledge and understanding the impact of the social work role on families and complexities in terms of engagement
- Commitment to working with children and families to improve their well-being
- Clear drive to assist others facing challenging situations and to affect change
- Emotional resilience in stressful situations and able to persist with challenging tasks
- Able to evaluate evidence, weighing pros and cons and demonstrating sound and objective judgement
- Approaches and solves problems with structure and thoroughness
- Able to modify actions and behaviours as necessary
- Strong writing, reporting and evaluative skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Relationship building skills
- Microsoft office products and general IT skills
Contact:
This Safeguarding Social Worker job is advertised by Alistair Guite; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
