Social Worker - Child Protection & Assessment Team (CPAT)

Location Ilford
Job type Permanent
Salary £40,751 - 45,869 per year
Reference 131638

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Social Worker within the Child protection and Assessment Team (CPAT) to work full time based in Ilford.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £45,869 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To undertake assessment of needs of children and their families.
  • To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare and present and implement plans for work with families based on such assessment.
  • To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family network.
  • To involve individual, families’ careers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices and options and link them to support groups and networks.
  • To be accountable to individuals, families, careers, groups, and communities for their practice.
  • To help individuals, families, careers, groups, and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.
  • To have knowledge of services relevant to individuals, families, careers, groups, and communities (not just those offered by their organization) and how to access other relevant services.
  • To work with children and their family to ensure where appropriate a re-unification, where short term separation has been necessary.
  • To initiate where necessary Care Proceedings, attend Court and represent the Local Authority.
  • To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare, and implement appropriate care plans in line with C.L.A. procedures.
  • To prepare and present range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences, and planning meetings.

Requirements of this Experienced Social Worker job:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Continual professional development.
  • Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Experienced Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.