Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding

Location Bury
Job type Contract
Salary £35 per hour
Reference 169647

Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company to the private and public sector has a locum vacancy for a Social Worker to work full time based in Bury, within the Adults' Safeguarding Team.

The pay rate for this locum Social Worker is £35 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 3-month contract.

Main Duties:

  • Act as a skilled and knowledgeable advisor and provide support to other professionals who may lack experience or be unfamiliar with customers presenting with complex high-risk lives.
  • Case manage a small number of the most complex high-risk customers, and support reduction of the impact on front door resources, by undertaking reactive responses as well as planned interventions.
  • The aim is to positively support customers with challenging high-risk behaviours, to achieve positive outcomes whilst demonstrating making best value of the cost of Community Care and NHS spend.

Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant senior level frontline experience within Adults' Services
  • Proven experience of working with customers with complex needs
  • Experience of multidisciplinary and multi- agency working with complex cases
  • Have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the principles and application of Human Rights Act, Care Act and Safeguarding Adults procedures
  • Ability to work in a high-pressure clinical environment
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
  • Ability to manage own emotions and those of others

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 Worker job is advertised by Paige Westbrook; 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.