Social Worker - Norwich, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Personnel

Sanctuary Personnel

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Norwich, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the FAST Team to work full time based in Kings Lynn.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £39,728 per annum.

Main duties:

Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy and guidance
Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or wellbeing of children at risk of abuse or neglect
Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally to help children, young people and families improve and gain control of their lives when safety or ability to participate in their communityis restricted
Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children,adults and families as appropriate, including intervention when information or circumstancessuggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers
Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them
Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case had reached the threshold for statutory intervention
Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity, for example, working with people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities ordiminished capacity
Maintain up to date, accurate and high quality records of activity on cases. Participate in a range of planning and decision making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews
Working with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources
Contribute to development of organisational capability by taking ownership of your own training and development, including identifying and taking part in training and development activity and responding to feedback on performance
Work as part project or process teams as required under the new operating model, ensuring excellent cross functional output

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

A social work qualification or equivalent
Understanding of relevant legislation
Continual professional development
Social Work England registered

Contact:

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 throughoutthe process and into your work placement.