Overview
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Child and Family Worker within the Children’s Service Team to work full time based in West Sussex.
The salary for this permanent Child and Family Worker job is up to £20,852 per annum
Responsibilities
* Manage a caseload under regular supervision.
* Assess needs, risks and options into account legal and other requirements. Work effectively in partnership with other staff and voluntary agencies.
* Undertake home visits or consultation sessions and develop effective working relationships and communicate effectively with those people who access or need the service, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals in order to deliver the appropriate interventions undertaken within Early Help or Social Care.
* Contribute to the ‘Team around the Child’ and other planning processes as a representative of Early Help. Work intensively with children/young people and their families where there is a possibility of family breakdown and crisis.
* Provide appropriate interventions and services for children/young people and their families to prevent children taking on inappropriate or excessive caring roles. Develop effective working relationships and communication with those people who access or need the service in order to deliver appropriate interventions.
* Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken and produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences including meetings, conferences, court, panels and other agencies.
* Report any allegation or suspicions of abuse or potential abuse of a vulnerable person to an immediate manager or supervisor.
* Contribute to Safeguarding Investigations and child/adult protection planning where appropriate. Responsible for regularly handling, processing and storing confidential information relating to the Early Help Service.
* To understand our safeguarding policies and processes and an active commitment to promoting safe practice and proactively raising any issues of concern at an appropriate level of management in order to protect children.
* Remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of best practice.
Requirements of this Child and Family Worker job:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Child and Family Worker 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.
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.
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