Senior Social Worker - MASH Team

Location Wandsworth
Job type Permanent
Salary £43,869 - 50,100 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call 07458161360
Reference 190952

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the MASH Team to work full based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £52,578 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care  proceedings and looked after children cases.
  • Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review.
  • Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
  • Established and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adult’s services.
  • Develop a good understanding of evidence based practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.
  • Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
  • Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standard and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
  • Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventative and targeted family support services, particular those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
  • Demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children’s System.
  • Understand, promote and integrate into practice Council policies in relation to valuing diversity and promoting equalities.
  • Contribute to the review of Council policies and procedures, particularly guidance and protocols for social workers.
  • To understand both Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people and adults as they apply to the role within the council.

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 Lucy Pearson; 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.