Social Worker - Children Advice & Support Services

Location Birmingham
Job type Permanent
Salary £37,736 per year
Consultant Harry Smy
Call 0333 7000 020
Reference 177884

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children’s Advice & Support Services to work full time based in Birmingham.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £37,736 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirments are met.
  • To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all relevant information and take appropriate actions to fulfil statutory responsibilities to promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of the child/young people.
  • To ensure the well-being and safety of the child/young person is paramount through analysing all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
  • To create and plan for children in need of protection and children in care involving multi-agency partners according to need.
  • To implement, monitor and review within multi-agency meetings, children’s plans to ensure needs are being met.
  • Ensure that meeting are proactive and timely; and meet the child’s/young person’s needs, wishes and feelings.
  • Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people, and ensure that services are joined up in approach.
  • To accurately record, report and communicate using accurate, up to date evidence based information in accordance with statutory and organisational requirments.
  • To communicate effectively to a variety of audiences through written, verbal and other means of communication.
  • To prepare and present reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices.
  • To take personal responsibility for your own professional development and reflective practice and keep up-to-date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development.
  • To work as a team member and attend team meetings and service review to positively contribute to the outcomes for children achieved as a team.
  • Actively support the Team Manager by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the job or needs of the service.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Social Worker  job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.