Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 600+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in London.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding & Family Support
Pay Rate: £37 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online careers hub
Duties:
- Provide focused and purposeful systemically-informed social work within practice framework, in complex situations, with explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes which are proportionate to each child’s identified risk and need
- Establish rapport, build and maintain professional, respectful, and honest relationships with children and their families to develop trust and assist in safeguarding children, resolving conflict and promoting positive and timely outcomes
- Deliver social work practice which is informed by statutory guidance, best evidence, and research knowledge
- Provide professional guidance, support and developmental opportunities with less experienced or knowledgeable social work colleagues, including taking the role of practice educator with social work students, and assessor of NQSWs in their ASYE year
- Present complex information in writing and in person in a range of settings, including professional input at child protection conferences and representing the at Court
- Maintain case records and management information on appropriate systems, ensuring that case files are organised and up to date
- Manage and organise complex information, producing comprehensive, analytic, high quality reports which evaluate the most appropriate interventions and make cogent arguments based on evidence
- Observe and talk with children in their various environments to help understand their physical and emotional worlds and patterns of development, taking account of typical development over time, including the quality of child and parent/carer interaction
- Identify the impact on children of adult mental ill health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, physical ill health and disability, including those that may indicate risk
- Access the help of other professionals to ensure children’s best interests are prioritised whilst vulnerable adults are safeguarded
- Deal with the more complex and unusual cases, especially those where there are issues of risk of harm to children
- Lead investigations of concerns about significant harm, in consultation with managers and other professionals
- Devise, implement and review care plans, including the development and management of protection plans within a child protection framework
- Carry out in-depth ongoing evidence-based assessment of complex social need and risk to children, in line with statutory guidance, working directly with children and all key family members, and gathering information from other agencies
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- Willing to undertake a DBS check
- Knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory guidance and the London Child Protection Procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors
- Knowledge and understanding of current issues, developments and research in children's social work practice, particularly in relation to child protection, looked after children, and planning of interventions
- Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children's agencies
- Knowledge of best practice for assessment and care planning, and some understanding of and commitment to the approaches within practice framework: systemic practices including Signs of Safety, restorative practices, and trauma/attachment-informed approaches including Secure Base
- Evidence of appropriate and relevant continuing professional development
- Experience of delivering effective direct social work interventions with children and their families to support change, from the beginning to the outcome of their care plan, be that Child in Need, Child Protection, Legal Proceedings, Looked After Children or Care Leavers
- Experience of undertaking investigations under Section 47 CA 89; holistic assessments and parenting assessments either for birth or connected children
- Experience of developing and delivering care plans within limited resources including commissioning services with regard to financial procedures
- Experience of providing professional leadership, including Practice Educating social work students on placement (PEPs 1), or supporting the development of others
- Experience of preparing reports and presenting these within formal settings, such as court proceedings, fostering or adoption panels, youth justice panels, or other formal settings
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.
