Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Placement Coordination Team to work full time for Bradford Children & Families Trust. The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £46,142 per annum. Main duties: To works in the Placement Coordination Service as part of the placement and family finding team, to identify the most suitable placements for children in response to requests from other professionals, taking account of their ethnicity, language, religion, disability, identify, education, health, family and social relationships, the wishes and feelings of the child and family, and any other identified needs, including safeguarding concerns. To work with the professionals involved in the caring/planning for children to make the best use of the available resource based on what is in the child's best interest and offering placement choice wherever possible. To have the expertise to undertake effective consultation with providers and prospective carers to build a profile of their skills and abilities so that placements meet the assessed need of children needing to be looked after. To involve children and young people, parents, foster carers, providers and other professionals in the ongoing development of the Placement Coordination Service. To be able to collate and analyse information in accordance with the priorities of the service to identify trends/gaps in service and contribute to the wider development of the Placement Coordination Service. Supervise and support placement arrangements, undertaking initial and full matching when required of residential homes, foster carers, semi-independent accommodation and support providers and secure children's home and present placement opinions with recommendations to be considered and approved by the child's social worker. Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users. To provide a social work service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct work, care planning and management. Be able to integrate a theoretical approach with practice. Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision-making in line with professional criteria and making sure that casework is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed. Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organisational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, multiple significant risk factors, and the need to take into account the public interest. Undertake any other duties as appropriate to the grade and purpose of the post as may be required. Requirements of this Social Worker: A social Work Qualification or equivalent. Understanding of relevant legislation. Registered or eligible for registration. Contact: This Social Worker job is advertised by Neil Clements; 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.