Social Worker - People Services

Location Derby
Job type Contract
Salary £27.02 - 27.02 per hour
Reference 170170

Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company to the private and public sector has a locum vacancy for a Social Worker to work full time based in Derby, within the People Services.

The pay rate for this locum Social Worker is £27.02 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 3-month contract.

Duties:

  • Provide Social Work and Care Management services to customers who may be homeless, rough sleeping or of no fixed abode.
  • Offer a flexible support service which helps customers access a range of statutory and non-statutory services, helping customers to navigate their way around social care, health, housing, and employment and achieve sustained long-term outcomes.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working within the Multi-Agency Rough Sleeper Hub to support customers with care and support needs to engage.
  • Undertake assertive outreach activity in partnership with housing and health partners to maximise the opportunities for homeless customers to engage in social care assessments and reduce safeguarding risks.
  • Co-ordinate and undertake the assessment of needs of designated customers.
  • Work with customers and their carers in accordance with agreed multi-agency assessment processes and hospital discharge procedures.

Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant frontline experience in Safeguarding Services
  • Car driver essential.
  • Must have received two vaccines to comply with upcoming legal requirements or be able to produce medical exemption certificate as the role may involve going into care homes.

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 Paige Westbrook; 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.