Social Worker - Halton, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Personnel

Sanctuary Personnel

Verified Company

Halton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an award-winning and renowned Recruitment Agency are looking for experienced and dedicated Social Workers to work full-time within the Children in Need/Child Protection service in Halton.

The salary for this position is up to £38,890 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 and wellbeing of children at risk of abuse and 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 has reached the threshold for statutory intervention
Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are most 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 highquality records of activity on cases. Participate in a range of planning and decisionmaking forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning Meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews
Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students, and newly qualified social workers, as and when required
Work as part of project or process teams as required under the new operating model, ensuring excellent cross functional output

Requirements to apply:

Degree or equivalent in social work
Current Social Work England registration
Qualified social work experience within children's services

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.