Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 600+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Senior Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Grays.
Team/Specialism: Adolescent Support
Pay Rate: £43.87 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:
- Safeguard vulnerable children and young people
- Provide high quality, research based casework service to all children & family service users and hold cases that consist mainly of the most complex family situations
- Offer consultation, support, specialist advice and joint working to colleagues within Children’s Services
- Promote children living with their family where safe to do so
- Comply with and promote legislation, statutory guidance and local policies and procedures
Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Be able to provide supervision to less experienced or unqualified workers
- Be willing and able to work in a flexible and agile way with regard both to hours of work and location of work, including remote and home working, as required, subject to service needs and requirements
- Fully understand and be aware of the commitment to Section 17 'Duty of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to prevent crime and disorder'
- Demonstrate and model a high standard of practice under their own direction, that reflects a value based approach to working with children and their families and is child centred
- Be available for supervision, as required and to prepare for supervisory sessions, as required by the Team Manager
- Experience of working with children and families within statutory, independent or third sector
- Experience of direct work with children and young people
- Ability to travel within the borough or be a car driver with a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Jess Ling; 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.
