Qualified Social Worker
Location: South East
Pay rate: £45 per hour
Are you an experienced and passionate Social Worker, looking for career progression? Pertemps Professional Recruitment is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work within an Adoption Team based in the South East. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Adoption services and be registered with Social Work England.
Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting the delivery of person-centred, safe, and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience, you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills, you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You’ll be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable results from your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly, however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.
Perfect candidate will be:
1. Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
2. SW, CSS, DipSW, or Social Work Degree.
3. Creative, flexible, and forward-thinking in approach.
4. Experience working in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
5. Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families.
6. Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
7. Experienced in working with a range of client groups within an Agency.
8. Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
9. Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
10. Experienced in working on a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
11. Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice.
12. 4 years plus qualified.
In this role you will:
1. Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessments of risks, protection, and social care needs.
2. Manage an agreed case load.
3. Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
4. Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
5. Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll, and lots more.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Surrey, Crawley, Slough, Croydon, Bromley, Orpington, Epsom, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Guildford, London, Cambridge, Northampton, Southend-on-Sea, Dartford, Reading, Rochford, Colchester, Ipswich, Watford, Broadstairs, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Worthing, Portsmouth, and Crawley.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager, and Assistant Team Manager.
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