Social Work Assistant - Pontefract, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Personnel
Description
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new fixed term 12-month position available for a Social Work Assistant within a charity to work full time based in Pontefract.
The salary for this permanent Social Work Assistant job is up to £25,817 per annum.Main duties:
- Provide high quality, communitybased advice and support for former miners and their dependants, who may be experiencing issues such as ill health, disability, financial, social, or emotional
- Deliver a service on an individual basis within the clients homes but may also include group work within community venues
- Actioning referrals to the organisation in an efficient and effective manner
- Carrying out high quality assessments and providing a range of interventions in response to the assessed needs of the client
- Providing a range of interventions in response to the assessed needs of the client including welfare benefits advice, advocacy, emotional support and practical advice
- Gather and analyse information in relation to the client and maintain accurate records and ensuring the database is kept up to date
- Liaising with and building relationships with a variety of external agencies/partners and promoting the service to other professionals and the clients
- Utilising basic counselling skills, providing accurate information and written reports for internal and external communication in line with GDPR
- Undertake any other duties as requested and reasonable to the post
Requirements of this job:
- Experience of working in a social work/social care environment
- Knowledge of and experience of providing welfare benefits advice
- Experience of undertaking assessments, planning and providing interventions, experience of working with older people and/or those with disabilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Good IT skills and be proficient with Microsoft packages and used to working with databases
- Knowledge and experience of former mining communities would be an advantage along with experience of working in the charity sector
- A social work qualification is not essential but is desirable
- Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job's responsibilities
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.
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