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 Time based in Slough.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £54,537per annum.
Main duties:
- Promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of the child/young person at all times and through all aspects of work.
- Be responsible for managing a complex and independent workload, ensuring legislative requirements are met to a high standard and within required timescales.
- Act as a senior professional, using knowledge and experience in a specialist area and from own professional experience to provide advice, support and critical friend, challenge on cases to colleagues to support them in their work.
- Take responsibility for a student working in Slough Children First, carrying out their supervision alongside the Assistant Team Manager.
- Take a string role in team meetings so that they are efficient and effective, leading team meetings as required in place of the Assistant Team Manager and Team Manager.
- Thoroughly assess, critically analyse, plan and implement suitable interventions for complex cases that fulfil statutory regulations, instigating proceedings and taking cases to court as required whilst effectively managing risk at all times.
- Produce concise, well-structured assessments, plans and reports, clearly recording and reporting analysis and judgements and ensuring that all recommendations are followed.
- Where cases are to be transferred to another service or partners, ensure that there is a clearly recorded transfer plan.
- Maintain accurate, up to date, evidence-based records safely and confidentially, in line with statutory requirements.
- Work with children, young people and families/carers to develop effective relationships through meaningful and purposeful direct work, actively seeking and understanding their needs and views to promote their participation in decision making and inform practice in assessment and planning in individual cases.
- Work in partnership with colleagues and other agencies to deliver accessible and effective services, empowering parents and carers to develop and maintain safe parenting practices, chairing meetings to a high standard to achieve outcomes for children.
- Be responsible for own individual performance in line with national standards, service and team specific performance indicators and actions required to address areas for improvement.
- Provide cover for the work of other team members as required, undertake specific projects, and other additional duties as required.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
