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JOB-20240819-db742659

<h3>Senior Social Worker - Safeguarding Team</h3>

Location: Uxbridge, Hillingdon, UK 
 Specialism: Children's Social Work - Safeguarding 
 Salary: £39.04 per hour 
 Salary Type: Hourly 
 Contract: Ongoing 
 Hours: Full Time (Part Time Considered)

Step into a rewarding locum opportunity as a Senior Social Worker within the Safeguarding Team in Uxbridge, Hillingdon. Based at The Civic Centre, Uxbridge UB8 1UW, this role offers stability through full-time hours (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday) while still allowing flexibility with start/finish times or the possibility of part-time arrangements. With competitive hourly pay and a dynamic working environment, this position is perfect for an experienced practitioner ready to make a meaningful impact.


<h3>Perks and Benefits:</h3>

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Full-Time Stability: Benefit from consistent hours that allow you to fully engage with the team and community.
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Hourly Pay: Enjoy the flexibility and clarity of hourly earnings, giving you full visibility into your income.
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Professional Development: Access ongoing training, CPD opportunities, and clear pathways for career progression.
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Diverse Caseload: Experience the variety and challenge that comes with locum safeguarding work.
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Professional Networking: Build strong relationships with colleagues across children's services and partner agencies.
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<h3>What You Will Do:</h3>

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Build meaningful, relationship-based practice with children, young people, and families.
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Manage a complex caseload, exercising professional autonomy and sound decision-making.
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Provide expert advice, guidance, and technical support to colleagues, social workers, managers, and partner professionals.
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Use, model, and support others in applying a range of assessment and intervention frameworks.
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Lead and coordinate multi-agency safeguarding plans for children and families.
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Prepare high-quality reports for statutory interventions and act as an expert witness in Care or Private Law proceedings if required.
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Contribute to panel processes, team meetings, and wider service planning.
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Act as a practice educator or mentor for students, apprentices, and newly qualified social workers.
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Take part in reflective practice sessions and support service development activities.
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Sanctuary Personnel

Senior Social Worker - Safeguarding Team

JOB-20240819-db742659Locum Social Worker within Safeguarding &amp; Mental Health Team in Redbridge, earning £32 hourly. This is a full-time, ongoing position where you will embark on an exhilarating journey to support individuals and make a real difference. As a Social Worker in Redbridge, you will work within an integrated health and social community mental health team, providing essential services in safeguarding and mental health. Perks and benefits: <ul>
<li>Enjoy the flexibility and variety that locum work offers, giving you the freedom to balance life and career on your own terms.</li><li>Full-time position: Dive into your work without the stress of juggling multiple part-time roles.</li><li>Competitive pay: Earn £32 hourly while making a significant impact in the community.</li><li>Professional growth: Gain valuable experience by working with diverse cases and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.</li><li>Work-life balance: Tailor your schedule to ensure you have time to enjoy life outside of work.</li></ul>
 What you will do: <ul>
<li>Conduct brief interventions and assessments to facilitate effective support plans.</li><li>Undertake core assessments to identify clients' needs and ensure their well-being.</li><li>Provide short-term keyworking, offering clients the immediate support they require.</li><li>Deliver long-term keyworking under the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for clients requiring sustained assistance.</li><li>Support the team by covering the Duty team, ensuring no client goes without attention.</li><li>Collaborate within an integrated health and social community mental health team to provide seamless, holistic care.</li></ul>
 Consider making Redbridge your new home. This vibrant area is rich in culture and community spirit, offering an excellent quality of life with green spaces, great transport links to London, and a friendly neighbourhood feel. Redbridge is not just a place to work but a place to thrive. Working with Sanctuary Personnel:Sanctuary Personnel is a trusted and award-winning agency for roles. With an ‘Excellent’ rating on Trustpilot from over 1,000 reviews and many prestigious industry awards, we are dedicated to finding you the best possible rates in roles that match your skills and experience.

Social Worker - Safeguarding & Mental Health Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Assessment or Safeguarding Team to work Full Time based in Haringey.

The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £51,574 per annum. 
 
 Main duties:

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<li>To take responsibility for a suitable caseload and develop and develop experience and competency across the following duties with opportunity to progress from one grade to the next when/of progression requirements are met.</li>

<li>Develop and maintain effective relationships with service users, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning that is person centred, and strengths based.</li>

<li>Work effectively within legal, policy and financial frameworks, obligations, structures and culture particularly, the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Human Rights and Equalities legislation and accompanying guidance and codes of practice.</li>

<li>Construct and implement care packages which are clearly linked to the needs of clients, working creatively with community and voluntary organisations to maximise independence, to minimise risks and improve outcomes and the quality of life for service users and their carers.</li>

<li>Be responsible for the assessment and safe discharge of service users from hospital back into community settings, working within challenging timeframes and reducing risk of future re admission.</li>

<li>Undertake a range of Care Act Assessments and Section 42 enquiries through the safeguarding process, in accordance with relevant statutory requirements, identifying risks, needs and options, including self-directed support options.</li>

<li>Undertake Mental Capacity assessments for service users where it is deemed that they may lack the mental capacity to make a specific decision.</li>

<li>Identify service users who are eligible for Continuing Health Care (CHC) or Section 117 funding and undertake checklists and work with other professionals to provide a multi-disciplinary assessment within this framework.</li>

<li>Complete Human Rights Act assessments for those who have no recourse to public funds but may require support under the Care Act.</li>

<li>Take responsibility for managing an individual caseload of clients, regularly monitor, review and evaluate changes in clients needs and ensure that all services contribute effectively to the support/care plan, and it remains an effective use of resources.</li>

<li>Undertake ongoing and urgent case reviews as necessary.</li>

<li>Intervene in emergency situations to protect vulnerable adults and children and initiate the appropriate statutory or other actions required.</li>

<li>Participate in office duty on a rota basis, responding to new referrals, assessing urgency of requests and implementing actions to meet immediate needs.</li>

<li>Maintain and update case notes and other records within required timescales, write reports provided written responses as required, if required, give evidence in court in relation to care or other proceedings.</li>

<li>Develop and maintain up to date relevant knowledge and competency and personal effectiveness in relevant legislation, social work practice and changes in social work including strengths based working delivery models through development as agreed by the Team Manager.</li>

<li>Work effectively as a member of a team and contribute through team meetings, forums and organisational events to the development of the service.</li>
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Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li>

<li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li>

<li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li>
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Contact: 
 This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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). 
 
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