Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker & Senior Social Worker within the Supporting Disabled Children Service to work Full Time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this Social Worker & Senior Social Worker job is up to £68,515 per annum.
Main duties:
* To manage a team of staff, including recruitment/retention, induction, training and development, performance management, disciplinary/capability, and succession planning.
* To manage the delivery and performance of the Team, ensuring that all work with families is assessed, prioritised, and actioned appropriately, so that all children and their families receive a suitable response that meets their assessed needs.
* To manage the allocation of workload across the team to agreed service priorities, actively monitor, review, and authorise case records and plans, addressing any workload management, performance, and/or quality issues as they arise.
* Where required, to control, as purchaser, the budget allocated to the team, ensuring that financial resources are deployed to maximum effect within Council policy and Departmental procedures and guidelines, ensuring that the budgets are not overspent. Where appropriate, provide team members and appropriate managers with regular and up-to-date information on the state of the budget. Where appropriate, to take responsibility for authorisation of expenditure at delegated level.
* To provide high-quality reflective professional supervision and appraisal to direct reports, resulting in consistent high standards of casework across the Team.
* To assure the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of social work provided by the team, ensuring that all social work intervention is conducted in accordance with legislative requirements, the Department’s Practice Standards, all relevant policies and procedures, and agreed performance targets.
* To provide expert professional advice and support in relation to all work with children allocated within the team, ensuring that the team is fully compliant with the law, ensuring legal advice is taken and acted upon as required, representing the local authority and presenting evidence and information at court as required.
* To anticipate and positively manage change in the social work environment, drawing on practice information, data, and analysis, ensuring that the team is aware of changing trends and national policy that impact on service users.
* The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.
Requirements of this Social Worker & Senior Social Worker job:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker & 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.
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 has significantly contributed to 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.
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