Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for a dedicated and experienced Social Worker to work based in Swinton, within the Fostering Team.
The pay rate for this locum Social Worker role is £25.02 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 1-month contract.
Main Duties:
- Work directly with children and their carers using a range of knowledge, skills and interventions as required, in accordance with statutory responsibilities to secure positive outcomes for children.
- Build effective relationships with children, young people and their families enabling full participation in assessment, planning, review and decision making.
- Manage a caseload, with varying degrees of complexity dependent upon skills and length of experience, with appropriate supervision, guidance and support.
- Work in accordance with national and local policies and procedures, and use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions.
- Prepare and producing a variety of high quality professional written documentation to required quality standards on behalf of the City Council.
- Work with partner agencies and represent the Council at a range of meetings, proceedings and reviews as required. You will secure access to services, negotiating and challenging other professionals and organisations to provide the help required.
- Provide support based on best evidence, which is tailored to meet individual child and family needs and which addresses relevant and significant risks.
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work.
- Current Social Work England registration.
- Experience of working with children and/ or complex safeguarding. Personal and professional commitment to ensure positive outcomes for children in Salford.
- Ability to communicate equally, appropriately and effectively with a wide range of individuals and groups across all sectors and levels of society. Ability to maintain accurate records and to communicate complex information clearly and concisely both verbally and in written form.
- You must clearly evidence your ability to develop effective relationships with partner agencies and effective engagement skills to work with their carer’s, families, and partner agencies.
- Ability to organise own time effectively, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales. Ability to maintain focus and objectivity under pressure and skill in managing and maintaining a complex workload.
- Evidence that you have a clear understanding of the Social Worker role and relevant legalisation, and understand the concept of integrated working, supporting colleagues to achieve a shared purpose.
- Be able to demonstrate evidence of good assessment practice using analytical skills.
- Ability to respond to immediate problems of a complex nature with associated risk factors and deliver immediate solutions sometimes under pressure.
- Ability to think creatively and take and active role in team and service development. Personal commitment to supervision, reflective practice and self development.
- Willingness to flexibly work outside of office hours as required by the needs of the service. You will also contribute to the team duty service on a rota basis with team members
- Ability to use IT systems to retrieve, record and update information and willingness to learn to use new systems.
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 Kelly Page; 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.
