Sanctuary Personnel, an award-winning and renowned Recruitment Agency is looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work full-time based in St Martins, within the Looked After Children Team.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is £53,965 per annum.
Duties:
- Hold case management responsibility for a number of Looked After Children and long term care requirement cases and to contribute to an effective service to these children, their parents and carers
- Hold a caseload of Looked After Children where decisions have been made about permanence, ensuring appropriate care planning is in place and that the cases are reviewed within appropriate timescales
- Case manage a number of care requirements which will be reviewed on an annual basis by CYCT
- Undertake direct work with children and young people, including life story work
- Coordinate and facilitate regular team around the child meetings
- Maintain and support children in their placements, ensuring the child, their carers, parents and other professionals are consulted and kept informed
- Attend court and CYCT, prepare reports and to represent Children and Family Community Services, both orally and in writing in an appropriate manner at all times
- Attend strategy meetings and undertake child protection investigations when these occur on active cases
- Undertake out of jurisdiction visits in the United Kingdom as required
- Work in cooperation with parents, carers, colleagues and other agencies, ensuring the child is central to any process
- Ensure that the States of Guernsey policies, procedures and legislation are adhered to
- Actively participate in monthly supervision sessions with their line manager
- Participate in a duty rota to provide an emergency service out of hours and also when in the work setting
- Undertake any other duties as may be determined by the Director of Child Care Services from time to time
- Work effectively with partner agencies, young people and their families to ensure an effective and sensitive service is provided
- Participate in regular formal supervision and performance appraisal with the Team Manager
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Professional social work qualification – CQSW, DipSW, Social Work Degree or equivalent and a good general education
- Hold current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Post qualification experience in a formal social work setting
- Hold a full valid driving licence
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation that affects young people and their families and a good knowledge of child care practices relating to children in care
- Ability to work with complex issues and analyse information
- Experience of undertaking assessments, care plans and reviews of cases
- Ability to develop positive working relationships and work in partnership with young people, their families, carers and other professionals
- Resilience and ability to cope in stressful situations
- A desire to work creatively with young people to build on strengths to ensure that young people develop the strategies to go on and become successful functioning adults
- Ability to make judgements and decisions with confidence and effectively manage a caseload
- Ability to use information technology effectively
- Ability to work with complex issues and analyse information
- Good written and communication skills
- Able to develop good working relationships with children and young people, their parents, carers and other professionals
- Ability to cope in stressful situations
- Ability to use information technology
- A commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities
- A commitment to promoting family life ensuring wherever possible that children are cared for safely in their own homes
- A commitment to working in partnership with children and their families
- A commitment to working in partnership with carers to promote a high standard of alternative care
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.
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.
