Senior Social Worker - Leaving Care/Young People Team

Location Hillingdon
Job type Permanent
Salary £35,496 - 44,628 per year
Reference 177421

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for Senior Social Worker within the Leaving Care/Young People Team to work full time based in Wirral.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £44,628 per annum.

Main Duties:

  • To be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirements are met.
  • To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
  • To create and plan for children in need of protection and children in care involving multi agency partners according to need.
  • To implement, monitor and review within multi agency meetings, children’s plans to ensure needs are being met.
  • Ensure that meetings proactive and timely; and meet the child’s/younger person’s needs, wishes and feelings.
  • Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people; ensure that services are joined up in approach.
  • To accurately record, report and communicate using accurate, up to date evidence based information in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
  • To establish skills, knowledge and expertise to enhance working practices in accordance with the College of Social Work ASYE Year 1 programme, Professional Capability Framework and the Health Care Profession Council’s (HCPC) Code of Practice for Social Workers.
  • To take personal responsibility for own professional development and reflective practice and keep up-to-date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development.
  • To work as a team member and attend team meetings and service reviews to positively contribute to the outcomes for children and achieved as a team.
  • Actively support the Team Manager by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the job or needs of service.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Continual professional development.
  • Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.