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 Safeguarding & Review Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Hereford.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding & Review
Pay Rate: £38 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time. 37 hours per week.
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:
- Work with children that Herefordshire safeguards
- Chair Child Protection Conferences, ensuring that all of our children have plans that are child focused, SMART and are achieving positive changes for our children and families
- Provide ongoing oversight, leadership and assurance, driving aspirational practice and improvements across the system
- Challenge where the care we offer needs to improve
- Develop an area of specialist practice knowledge and will be a leader and advocate to enable us to drive quality assurance for our children to improve their outcomes
Requirements of the Safeguarding & Review Manager:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Possess the skills and ability to work inclusively with all relevant family members, carers and professionals and understand the skilful and sensitive use of authority as well as demonstrate excellent chairing skills, together with the ability and confidence to effectively scrutinise and challenge practice where needed
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate wide ranging information which may be complex and contentious
- The ability to negotiate solutions across wide areas of the service and successfully convince others of the need to take a specific course of action or adopt a specific approach for the safety and protection of children
- The ability to formulate and oversee plans, within which child safety is promoted, risk is sufficiently managed, permanence is progressed, and aspects of care, development and protection are thoroughly considered
- Able to formulate accurate, accessible, and comprehensive reports
- The ability to communicate effectively and sensitively, with children of all ages, capturing and responding to their wishes, feelings and lived experiences
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing needs, in a high pace environment
- Experience as an IRO, a Child Protection Conference Chair or a team manager (to provide cover in the CP Conference service in times of urgent need)
- Extensive working knowledge of The IRO handbook, Child Protection Procedures, relevant legislation, regulations and guidance, including Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Knowledge of Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Legislative Frameworks
- Previous leadership experience within a Children's Social Care environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of roles and responsibilities of all other agencies involved with children
- Significant understanding of relevant research, particularly that concerning child development, the effects of separation and loss and attachment theory
Contact:
This Safeguarding & Review Manager job is advertised by Lauren Minter; 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.
