Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Lambeth.
Team/Specialism: FSCP
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
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- Professional Development: Working as a locum in Social Work provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Implement positive change in complex cases in children, families and carers lives by using systemic social work methods, models and tools, with the aims of helping them to be as independent as possible
- Manage and minimise risks of abuse and neglect as well as meeting care needs while exercising a high quality of professional judgement
- Lead and oversee professional judgements in the context of the relevant legal and policy frameworks
- Undertake and advise on high need comprehensive/complex and proportionate assessments of children using the assessment framework, to plan how those needs will be met, to support them with putting those plans in to action, and review those plans and reassess needs
- Establish and develop collaborative robust working with partner agencies; and promote, model and be accountable for effective inter-agency working arrangements to ensure children are protected from risk of significant harm and their care needs are met
- Carry out safeguarding enquiries, support the work of others involved in these enquiries, and to support children, families and carers with care and support needs to develop and put in to action plans appropriate to their wishes and circumstances
- Act in the role of the lead professional and be accountable in complex, statutory cases that require a qualified children’s social worker, particularly child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases
- Manage and monitor on a high need complex and challenging caseload of children, families and carers with a degree of autonomy; developing and implementing casework while informing and making recommendations to management of any of irregularities/serious issues
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Up to date professional and technical expertise in relation to children
- Knowledge of complex social work theories and values, and research and how to apply these in practice using the latest and most relevant evidence
- Thorough and up to date knowledge of proposed and actual legislation, statutory regulations and Government guidance and standards relevant to children
- Pre or post qualifying Children’s Social Work experience within a statutory or voluntary setting
- Experience of direct work with children undertaking assessment of need and risk
- Extensive experience of successfully managing the most complex and challenging cases
- Significant and demonstrable post-qualification experience
- Gained accreditation in one of the following or equivalent:15-day Heart of Practice training and accreditation/Practice Educator training/Accredited CPD equivalent training
- Be curious, sensitive, and reflective as well as being authoritative, professional and tenacious in improving life outcomes for children, families and carers
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Michael Bowen; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
