Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the No Recourse to Public Funds Team to work Full Time based in Redbridge.The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £55,323 per annum.Main duties:Support the manager, team and service by providing professional leadership within an integrated service.Assist with overall responsibility within the team for assessment, care/support planning and review of people with a range of needs and their carers, working within a multi-disciplinary framework.Provides expert guidance on statutory duties, prepares court reports and attends court and court of protection hearings in order to provide expert evidence when necessary.Provide and develop specific specialist knowledge relevant to your professional role.Ensure people receive the required health and social care support within the community, prevent hospital admission and proactively work with the principles of admission avoidance.To lead, support and work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure people are discharged from hospital within agreed timeframes and with appropriate support mechanisms in place.High level of skill to evaluate risk in partnership with service users and carers, where required putting in place appropriate intervention plans to protect vulnerable adults.Take a clinical lead and support all staff within the team on legal cases, court reports and challenges to completion of statutory duties.Ensure the service users and carers needs and outcomes are met whilst utilising resources effectively.Work autonomously and carry a small complex caseload.Develop, encourage and maintain high professional standards by supporting the service with practice and knowledge development, quality assurance and contribute to the strategic direction of the service.Provide supervision, line management support, advice and guidance to members of the team and service as required.Ensure effective communication within the team and with colleagues internal and external to the organisation.Actively promote and implement principles and practices of working within an integrated health and social care framework.Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.Understanding of relevant legislation.Relevant Social Work experience.3 years post qualifying experience in health and/or social care setting.Contact:This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.