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Senior Social Worker - Supporting Disabled Children
Sanctuary Personnel Ltd
Greater London
GBP 10.000 - 40.000
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Supporting Disabled Children Service to work Full Time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £54,503 per annum.
Main duties:
1. Act as the lead professional for children who need a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings, and looked after children.
2. Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families.
3. Bring together and co-ordinate the team around to ensure a multi-disciplinary Family Safeguarding approach.
4. Establish and develop collaborative working with health and social care partners from children’s and adult’s services.
5. Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres, and other settings.
6. Develop a good understanding of evidence-based systemic practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.
7. Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisals, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
8. Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently; providing accredited practice teaching as required.
9. Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, such as parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.
10. Demonstrate a high level of competence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records.
11. Understand both the Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people, and adults as they apply to the role within the Council.
12. The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties; the post holder will carry out other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, as part of the role.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
1. A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Relevant Social Work experience.
Contact:
This Senior 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.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. We will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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