Social Worker - SWWF Team

Location
Job type Permanent
Salary £37482.00 - £42684.00 per annum
Reference HQ00103737_1582280528

Sanctuary Social Care is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work full-time in Croydon, within the SWWF Team. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Children's Services and be registered with Social Work England.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is £37,482 - £42,684 per annum.

Duties of the Social Worker:

  • Manage a Children and Families caseload, to include complex and diverse cases involving assessments, reviews, interventions and preparation of reports to effectively meet the needs of the child.
  • To ensure and evidence that children, parents and family members are partners in assessment, planning and the delivery of help and services and this directly impacts on outcomes.
  • Promote a practice philosophy which seeks to empower service users, build on individual strengths, and develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to risk and to ensure assessments and plans reflect this.
  • To ensure that partner professionals and agencies are fully engaged and coordinated in assessment, planning and the delivery of help and services.
  • To contribute to the delivery of the Service's engagement strategy and, depending on level, have responsibility for a particular relationship.
  • To build up a comprehensive knowledge of all available services and make full use of them through evidence-based matching.
  • To maintain records that evidence our engagement with children and families, informs the quality assurance framework e.g. quantitative, qualitative and outcome information for the children and families; the views and experiences of children and families.
  • To contribute to quality assurance exercises and activity as part of the service's quality assurance framework.
  • To adapt personal practice in response to the findings from the quality assurance framework.
  • To maintain up-to-date knowledge of research findings, legislation, statutory guidance and policy developments relevant to the service area.
  • To apply the research evidence, legislation, guidance etc. in practice: in assessments, professional judgments, care plans, direct work with children and families and matching of child / family needs and services.

Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant senior level frontline experience within Children's Services
  • Undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to employment and then every three years

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Neil Clements; 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.