Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker within the Assessment Team to work full time based in Bedford.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker job is up to £50,553 per annum.
Main duties:
- Work in partnership with children, young people and families/carers and, through building relationships, to elicit their needs and views and promote participation in decision making.
- Undertake assessments in accordance with statutory/regulatory and operational standards, policy, and procedures for the service and in the context of assessing risk to children and young people.
- Plan, implement and review a range of intervention for children, young people and families/carers in accordance with statutory/regulatory and operational standards, policy and procedures for the service.
- Manage a workload independently, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
- Make pro-active use of supervision to support effective practice, reflection and career development and to meet the objectives of Performance Development Reviews.
- Maintain accurate, up to date records safely and confidently in accordance with the Council’s policies and procedures. Produce succinct, well-structured records and reports, clearly recording and reporting analysis and judgements.
- Pro-actively engage with colleagues and a range of organisations to identify, assess, plan for and support the needs of needs of children, young people and families/carers in order to promote positive change and independence, whilst demonstrating confident and effective judgement about risk to children and young people.
- Carry out all duties in accordance with the Council’s Equal Opportunities Policy and other policies designed to protect employees and service users from harassment. It is the duty of the post-holder not to act in an oppressive or discriminatory manner towards employees or service users. The post-holder should respond to such practice or behaviour by challenging or reporting it.
- Meet the requirements of the Professional Capabilities Framework, Social Worker level, and of registration with HCPC in respect of practice standards, conduct and professional development.
Requirements of this role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker/Experienced Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
