Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Looked After Children Team to work full time based in Stevenage.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £39,728 annum.
Main duties:
- To 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.
- To case manage a number of care requirements which will be reviewed on an annual basis by CYCT.
- To undertake direct work with children and young people, including life story work/undertake of jurisdiction visits in the United Kingdom as required/undertake any other duties as may be determined by the Director of Child Care Services from time to time.
- To coordinate and facilitate regular team around the child meetings.
- To maintain and support children in their placements, ensuring the child, their careers, parents and other professionals are consulted and kept informed.
- To 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.
- To work in cooperation with parents, carers, colleagues and other agencies, ensuring the child is central to any process.
- To participate in a duty rota to provide an emergency service out of hours and also when in the work setting
Requirements of this Social Worker job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent/Social Work England registered
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Committment continual professional development.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.
