Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Specialist Adolescents Team to work full time based in Brighton.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,213 per annum.
Responsibilities:
1. Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy and guidance.
2. Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or well-being of children at risk of abuse or neglect.
3. Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally to help children, young people and families improve and gain control of their lives.
4. Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation.
5. Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them.
6. Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.
7. Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity.
8. Maintain up to date, accurate and high-quality records of activity on cases.
9. Participate in a range of planning and decision-making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning Meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews.
10. Act as Practice Educators for social work qualifying course students on practice placements (as appropriate) or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers completing their ASYE.
11. Work with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.
12. Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students and newly qualified social workers, as and when required.
13. Contribute to the development of organisational capability by taking ownership of own training and development.
14. Work as part of project or process teams as required under the new operating model, ensuring excellent cross-functional output.
Requirements:
1. A social work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.
Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
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.
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