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 Greenwich, within the Children and Families Team.
The pay rate for this locum Social Worker is £35 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 6-month contract.
Main Duties:
- Receive and share information about children and their families in accordance with agreed policies, protocols and procedures, and adhere to the Data Protection Act principles
- Carry out to a good standard assessment, planning, review and other case management activity in accordance with legal, regulatory and professional practice standards. This includes statutory guidance and regulations relating to assessment and case management, safeguarding children, disabled children, looked after children, fostering, adoption and private fostering.
- Consistently show sound professional judgements about children’s needs, parenting capacity the child’s wider family, how far community or environmental factors impact on the child’s welfare, and on the risk and protective factors in the child’s life. Use these judgements as a basis for effective actions to meet assessed needs taking account of the best use of resources and budgets allocated.
- Co-ordinate, support and challenge professionals to work effectively together and, and evaluate the impact of help that has been provided in terms of the child’s well-being and life chances.
- Prepare and present with minimal direction evidence and reports to Panels and Courts in order to secure the decisions that will enable the child to have a safe and secure childhood.
- Develop specialist knowledge and use this to improve effectiveness of practice within the team.
- Promote in own practice, within the team and service group the participation of children, young people and their families in developing the service provided by the team and service group.
- Engage positively with and contribute to workforce development activity across the service and contribute to the development of our learning and improving organisation.
- Demonstrate effective practice in keeping children, their families and other professionals informed about the involvement of children’s social care and progress of cases.
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
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 Jess Ling; 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.
