Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Solutions Plus Team to work full time based in Oxfordshire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £41,390 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed, and that relevant intervention are provided where needed, in a timely way.
- To work with families using FSP Workbook modules, and a strengths-based approach.
- To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including child protection conference reports and legal reports for care proceedings.
- To attend conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting plan clearly, with professionalism and integrity.
- To ensure the Assistant/Team Manager is kept fully appraised of significant information about allocated families, seeking advice as and when necessary.
- To attend group supervision when required and to ensure that relevant updates are provided before each group supervision session.
- To attend individual supervision when required and engage in continual professional development as recommended by the Assistant/Team Manager.To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the Council’s policies and procedures.
- To act as the duty worker for the team on a rotational basis, responding to new referrals.
- To undertake child and family assessments for allocated families.
- To practice in line with the Council’s procedures and statutory regulation in supporting children who come into the care of the local authority.
- To be familiar with and committed to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory and unoppressive practice and the Council Policy and Plan and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team, workplace, and wider organisation.
- To proactively liaise with and work in partnership other agencies and organisations, parents and carers.
- To ensure the child’s voice is considered in all casework and included in all assessments and plans.
- To promote the involvement of young service users and families in meetings about them, and where possible, in-service development.
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 Edwin Mhende; 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
