Social Worker - Children with Disabilities Team

Location Dudley
Job type Permanent
Salary £28,673 - 38,890 per year
Consultant Harry Smy
Call 0333 7000 020
Reference 176671

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children with Disabilites Team to work full time based in Dudley.

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

Main duties:

  • Assessing need and planning and delivering appropriate responses.
  • Working in partnership with colleagues from other agencies to deliver accessible and effective services, empowering parents and carers to develop and maintain safe parenting practices
  • Maintenance of knowledge of relevant legislation, departmental and corporate policies and procedures relating to looked after children, children in need and child protection, to achieve a high quality of service delivery
  • Monitoring and supervising the wellbeing of service users according to statutory and departmental guidelines
  • Ensure that all work with children, families and young people promotes positive relationships and meets the requirements of the Corporate Plan, our Service Plan, and Team Plans as well as the values of the Council and relationship based practice
  • Maintaining written and electronic records of work in accordance with departmental guidelines
  • Prepare written reports for professional colleagues and court as required
  • Participate in meetings necessary for the effective safeguarding of children and young people, including groups supervision and Reflective Practice Groups
  • Participation in continuing professional development opportunities and contribution to the development of good social work practice across the service
  • To embrace the Council’s Equalities Policy and contribute to the service’s Equalities Action Plan
  • To adhere to the Council’s Health & Safety Policy

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.