Social Worker - Safeguarding & Family Support Team

Location Slough
Job type Permanent
Salary £37,300 - 42,839 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call +447458161360
Reference 188587

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Safeguarding & Family Support Team to work full time based in Slough.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,498per annum.

Main duties:

  • Promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of the child/young person at all times throughout all aspects of work.
  • Be responsible for managing an independent workload, ensuring legislative requirements are met to a high standard and within required timescales.
  • Thoroughly assess, critically analyse, plan and implement suitable interventions for complex cases to court as required whilst effectively managing risk at all time and seeking support from senior team members when required.
  • Produce concise, well-structed assessments, plans and reports, clearly recording and reporting analysis and judgements and ensuring that all recommendations are followed.
  • Where cases are to be transferred to another service or partners, ensure that there is clearly recorded transfer plan.
  • Maintain accurate, up to date, evidence-based records safety and confidentially in line with statutory requirements.
  • Work with children, young people and families/carers to develop effective relationships through meaningful and purposeful direct work, actively seeking and understanding their needs and views to promote their participation in decision making and inform practice in assessment and planning in individual cases.
  • Work in partnership with colleagues and other agencies to deliver accessible and effective services, empowering parents and carers to develop and maintain safe parenting practices, leading meetings to achieve outcomes for children.
  • Be responsible for own individual performance in line with national standards, service and team specific performance indicators and actions required to address areas for improvement.
  • Be responsible for own professional development keeping pace with national, regional and local policy initiatives, attending training to maintain professional development and ensuring the receipt of regular supervision.
  • Participate in and learn from routine observation, review and auditing activity conducted by the Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager to secure the highest possible standards of social work practice.
  • Develop and maintain effective internal and external working relationships to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people, ensuring a joined-up approach to relationships to other team members and managers.


Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work of equivalent professional qualification.
  • At least 1 years’ experience of supervising professional staff.
  • Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.
  • Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job’s responsibilities.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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. This very much played a significant in 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.