Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Southwark.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding & Family Support
Pay Rate: £38.50 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time. Occasional requirements to work evenings and weekend.
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Social Work roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
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- Professional Development: Working as a locum in Social Work provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Provide focused and purposeful systemically-informed social work within Southwark’s 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 Council 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
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration, including evidence of appropriate and relevant continuing professional development
- 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 Southwark's practice framework: systemic practices including Signs of Safety, restorative practices, and trauma/attachment-informed approaches including Secure Base
- 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
- Awareness of issues relating to communities from diverse backgrounds, ability to take into account issues relating to diversity and the experience of discrimination
- Ability to collate and analyse complex information, and produce high quality data and reports that are easily understood by others, with clearly evidenced recommendations
- Commitment to the principles of openness, transparency and accountability and to the principles in practice framework (child/young person-centred, family minded, strengths-based, evidence informed, relationship based, outcome-focused, fair and reflective)
- Ability to formulate and implement effective social work interventions
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.
