Social Work Practitioner - Families First

Location Crook
Job type Contract
Salary £31.50 - 32.00 per hour
Reference 166533

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for a dedicated and experienced Social Work Practitioner to work based in Crook, within the Families First Team.

The pay rate for this locum Social Work Practitioner role is £31.50 - £32 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 1-month contract.

Main Duties:

  • Carrying out Core Assessments, pre-birth assessments, risk assessments.
  • Carrying out Section 47 Child protection investigations.
  • Writing Statements for court.
  • Completing Section 7 and 37 reports for court.
  • Representing the authority in court to give evidence.
  • Carrying out home visits for monitoring purposes and to safeguard children.
  • Keeping up to date case recordings.
  • Convening and chairing core group meetings.
  • Liaising with other professionals.
  • Carrying out joint investigations and interviews with the police.
  • Initiating and seeing through care proceedings.
  • Implementing and reviewing Care Plans.
  • Supervising contact.
  • Writing case conference reports.
  • Attending case conferences and strategy meetings.
  • Completing Child in Need plans.

Requirements of the Social Work Practitioner:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work.
  • Current Social Work England registration.
  • Recent post-qualifying experience within frontline children’s social work.

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 Social Work Practitioner job is advertised by Liam Burgess; 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.