Senior Social Worker - Supporting Disabled Children
Sanctuary Personnel is recruiting for a permanent Senior Social Worker within the Supporting Disabled Children Service, full time, based in Wandsworth. The salary for this permanent role is up to £54,503 per annum.
Overview
The postholder acts as the lead professional for children who need a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children. You will undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, and work within a multi-disciplinary Family Safeguarding approach.
Responsibilities
* Act as the lead professional for children who need a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children.
* Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families.
* Bring together and co-ordinate the team to ensure a multi-disciplinary Family Safeguarding approach.
* Establish and develop collaborative working with health and social care partners from children's and adults' services.
* Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children's centres and other settings.
* Develop a good understanding of evidence-based systemic practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.
* Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisals, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
* Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently; provide accredited practice teaching as required.
* Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children (parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, homelessness).
* Demonstrate a high level of competence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records.
* Understand the Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people and adults as they apply to the role within the Council.
* Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.
Requirements
* A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Relevant Social Work experience.
Contact and additional information
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon. If you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications, we regretfully inform that we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.
Sanctuary Personnel is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds. The company provides annual online compliance and EDI training.
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 so support can be provided throughout the process and into your work placement.
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