Sanctuary Social Care has a permanent job vacancy for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work full-time within a Locality, Child Protection Team (Responsible for Assessment, Children in Need, Child Protection and Care Proceedings) based in Derbyshire. The ideal candidates will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice and be registered with the HCPC.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is from £26,890 to £35,187 per annum and £2000 Market Supplement on top, paid monthly.
Job Purpose:
- To provide a social work service that supports individuals and communities to achieve their potential.
- To work in partnership with individuals to identify needs and to develop plans and responses which meet those needs.
- To act on behalf of vulnerable individuals to safeguard their health and wellbeing.
- Effectively manage a designated caseload to achieve the best outcomes for individuals, groups and communities.
- Provide leadership and expertise to empower individuals, groups and communities to achieve identified change.
- Build and sustain relationships with individuals and communities.
- Represent the needs of vulnerable people.
Main Duties:
- Produce care plans with individuals and ensure their effective implementation.
- Provide social work with homeless and potentially homeless persons/families.
- Act as a Duty Officer.
- Assist in the inductions of newly qualified social work employees.
- Provide consultation to other social worker staff on a particular specialism.
- Supervise and assess social worker students or trainees.
- Record all work undertaken and prepare reports/assessments.
- Accept responsibility, with the line manager, for reviewing work on caseloads at regular intervals. This would include closure and transfer of cases.
- Ensure that the quality of service provided to and on behalf of individuals meets agreed quality standards.
- Maintain effective contacts with all providers of care and other people responsible for relevant community resources.
- Initiating, where necessary, multi-disciplinary meetings for the co-ordination of complex care arrangements including safeguarding.
- Undertake financial assessment role, where required.
- Seek to ensure income maximisation for people.
- Understand and comply with all County Council policies and relevant legislation in the performance of the duties of the post.
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Recognised and relevant professional qualification e.g. DipSW, CQSW, CSS.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Significant post qualification experience in a Local Authority child protection children's services setting.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Jenifer Watts; 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.
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 by contacting us. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
