Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for a dedicated and experienced Senior Social Worker to work based in Manchester.
The pay rate for this locum Senior Social Worker role is £30 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 3-month contract with possible extension to cover length of maternity leave.
Main Duties:
- Assure Adult Social Care of the safety and quality of its assessment and safeguarding activity.
- Undertake audits and provide analysis, develop systems of feedback from citizens and colleagues. The evidence provided by this team will be available to further improve quality of practice, future peer reviews and / or regulatory inspections.
- Ensure the provision of appropriate and co-ordinated services to ensure positive outcomes for Manchester residents.
- Work collaboratively with other agencies and stakeholders to establish common goals to achieve joint objectives to plan and deliver services to meet the needs of individuals.
- Lead on the evaluation and development of their service and will have an active involvement in the research and evaluation functions of the team to ensure the best possible outcomes for individuals and their families.
- Support the leadership of the team and service through the provision of advice and supervision to colleagues, contributing to the ongoing development of staff, students, and trainees.
- Drive the continuing development and effective delivery of the team/function, creating service plans and team priorities and agreeing and monitoring performance objectives to ensure the delivery of social care to vulnerable individuals and their families.
- Monitor and review decisions made following social care assessments, ensuring the development of staff and services to improve outcomes for Manchester residents.
- Actively lead in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of changes in working practice and service delivery to ensure the delivery and continuous improvement of high-quality services.
- Ensure that services are appropriately and sufficiently funded by developing and setting of budget plans and monitoring expenditure against these plans to ensure the efficient use and deployment of physical resources across teams.
Requirements of the Senior Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work.
- Current Social Work England registration.
- Recent post-qualifying experience within frontline social work.
- Ability to make accurate quantitative and qualitative assessments of policy performance.
- Speaks fluently, expresses opinions, information, and key points of an argument clearly, makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence.
- Ability to identify best practice and analyse trends and patterns to develop ideas for the strategy of the service.
- Ability to think laterally and consider the root cause of a problem and the client / organisation -wide consequence of decisions made.
- Ability to identify patterns and trends that may impact on decisions and propose realistic conclusions identifying the risks and any assumptions made.
- Demonstrate excellent judgement skills under competing priorities and pressure.
- Seeks out rigorous research into new approaches and looks for the potential to develop existing approaches.
- Ability to find creative solutions where there are no existing parameters or procedural framework Technical requirements (Role Specific).
- Willingness to work outside of standard of office hours as required.
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 Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Paige Westbrook; 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.
