Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 600+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Advanced Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Bury.
Team/Specialism: Adoption
Pay Rate: £37 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online careers hub
Duties:
- Working with birth families when there are difficulties and prior to any recommendation that children should be removed
- Offering support and alternatives to children going into care
- Making decisions about the placement of brothers and sister together or apart
- Assessing prospective foster carers
- Training prospective foster carers
- Matching children with an adoptive family
- Preparing and moving children to adopters
- Helping with and making decisions about contact with birth parents, brothers and sisters and other family members after adoption and what happens in practise
- Offering support to all involved in the adoption process including adopted children and adults, adopters and birth families
- Working with the legal department involved in the adoption process
Requirements of the Advanced Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
Contact:
This Advanced Practitioner job is advertised by Giorgio Dimuccio; 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.
