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JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title: Adult Social Worker - Inpatient Forensic Services 
 Location: Beckenham, UK 
 Salary: £30.00 per hour 
 Contract Type: Full-Time, Ongoing

We have an exciting opportunity for an Adult Social Worker to join the Inpatient Forensic Services Team at River House in Beckenham. This ongoing full-time locum role offers a competitive £30.00 per hour and the chance to work in a dynamic, engaging environment with a diverse patient caseload. You will play a key role in supporting mentally disordered offenders, contributing to safeguarding, risk management, and discharge planning, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team committed to excellence in service delivery.

<h3>Perks and Benefits:</h3>

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Locum Job: Enjoy the flexibility and variety that locum work provides, allowing you to manage your schedule and gain experience across different settings.
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Professional Development: Access ongoing training, workshops, and opportunities to advance your career.
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Research Opportunities: Contribute to innovative projects and cutting-edge research within forensic services.
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Work-Life Balance: Benefit from structured hours, supportive team dynamics, and a role that values your personal well-being.
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<h3>What You Will Do:</h3>

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Manage a diverse caseload of patients using core social work principles.
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Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver comprehensive care for mentally disordered offenders.
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Implement effective safeguarding procedures and individualised risk management strategies.
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Plan and facilitate discharge processes to optimise patient outcomes.
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Contribute to service development and continuous improvement initiatives within the forensic team.
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<h3>Ideal Candidate:</h3>

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PMVA training or equivalent certification is desirable.
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Experience at a senior level in adult mental health, preferably within forensic inpatient settings.
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Strong communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills in a complex clinical environment.
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<h3>Why Beckenham?</h3>

Beckenham offers a vibrant community with excellent transport links to central London. With its mix of cultural attractions, green spaces, and a welcoming atmosphere, it provides the perfect balance between career progression and quality of life.

<h3>Working with Sanctuary Personnel:</h3>

Sanctuary Personnel

Adult Social worker - Inpatient Forensic Services Team

JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title: Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker) 
 Location: Kingston Upon Thames, UK 
 Salary: £45.20 per hour 
 Contract Type: Full-Time, Ongoing Locum

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker) in Kingston Upon Thames. This full-time locum position offers a competitive £45.20 per hour and the chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of children and families. If you are a proactive and experienced social work professional, ready to lead a dynamic team and manage high-risk cases, this role is for you.

<h3>Perks and Benefits</h3>

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Locum Job: Enjoy flexibility and autonomy in your schedule while gaining experience across diverse settings.
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Competitive Pay: Be generously rewarded for your expertise and commitment.
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Networking Opportunities: Collaborate with skilled professionals and expand your professional network.
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Diverse Experience: Work on varied cases and environments, enhancing your professional portfolio.
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<h3>What You Will Do</h3>

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Lead and manage service delivery for vulnerable children and young people, particularly within adolescent services.
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Supervise and support case workers, promoting professional development and team performance.
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Manage safeguarding and public protection risks, ensuring high standards of child protection.
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Facilitate multi-agency collaboration to provide comprehensive support to children and families.
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Ensure high-quality recording, monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance using Management Information Systems.
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Apply relevant legislation and policies to inform practice and uphold safeguarding responsibilities.
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Use data and evidence effectively to inform decision-making.
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Foster inclusive practice, addressing equality and diversity with colleagues and service users.
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<h3>About You</h3>

Qualifications:

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Degree-level education with a social work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
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Evidence of continuing professional development.
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Skills and Experience:

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Proven experience in social work practice and managing service delivery for adolescents.
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Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker)

JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title: Social Worker - Children In Need Team 
 Location: London, UK (222 Upper Street, N1 1XR) 
 Salary: £33.73 per hour 
 Contract Type: Locum, Ongoing, Full-Time

We are seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join the Children In Need Team at the London Borough of Islington. This ongoing locum role offers flexibility, competitive pay, and the opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of children and families. Core hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, but flexible arrangements such as 8am-6pm for four days, 8am-4pm, 9am-6pm, or part-time work are also available.

<h3>Perks and Benefits</h3>

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Locum Job: Enjoy flexibility and variety, gaining diverse experiences and expanding your professional portfolio.
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Flexible Working Hours: Tailor your schedule to fit your lifestyle and commitments.
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Competitive Pay: £33.73 per hour recognizes your skills and dedication.
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Professional Development: Access a range of learning opportunities to enhance your expertise.
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<h3>What You Will Do</h3>

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Conduct Looked After Children reviews to ensure the best outcomes for children.
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Follow Child Protection procedures rigorously to maintain safety and stability.
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Manage cases in care proceedings with professionalism and empathy.
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Undertake thorough risk assessments to identify and mitigate potential concerns.
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Collaborate to create multi-agency plans for children returning to their families.
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Devise and implement child protection plans tailored to each child's needs.
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Engage in direct work, including life story sessions, to support emotional development and permanency.
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Attend family group conferences and maintain accurate case records.
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Prepare panel reports, conduct kinship assessments, and provide court evidence.
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Manage caseloads efficiently, adhere to statutory timescales, and prepare pathway plans to support future outcomes.
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<h3>Why London?</h3>

London offers a vibrant

Social Worker - Children In Need team

JOB-20240819-db742659

Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) - Social Care - Camden, UK 
 Daily rate: £539.96 
 Hours: Full-time or part-time options available 
 Assignment: Ongoing 
 Core hours: Typically 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with flexible patterns available (e.g., 8am-6pm across four days, or 9am-6pm)

Join us in Camden for an exciting opportunity as a Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO), where you will play a crucial role in safeguarding and protecting children across the borough. This position places you at the centre of managing allegations against professionals and individuals in positions of trust, ensuring that children's welfare remains the highest priority. From providing expert advice to leading multi-agency meetings, your contribution will be vital to maintaining safety and trust within the community.

<h3>Perks and benefits</h3>

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Flexible working options: Choose between full-time and part-time hours to suit your lifestyle and commitments.
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Competitive daily rate: Enjoy a highly competitive salary that reflects your expertise and responsibility.
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Professional development: Access regular training to support your continued growth in safeguarding practice.
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Work-life balance: Flexible scheduling allows you to maintain balance while exploring everything Camden has to offer.
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<h3>What you will do</h3>

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Lead and coordinate the management of allegations against individuals working with children, in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children and Camden's safeguarding procedures.
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Act as the primary point of contact for agencies, professionals, and employers regarding concerns about those in positions of trust.
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Provide timely and accurate advice on thresholds for LADO involvement and subsequent safeguarding actions.
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Receive, oversee, and record LADO referrals, ensuring sound decision-making, risk assessment, and clear documentation.
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Chair and coordinate multi-agency allegation management meetings, ensuring actions, outcomes, and follow-up arrangements are clearly agreed.
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Maintain effective working relationships with police, children's social care, HR teams, Ofsted, regulatory bodies, and employers.
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Ensure that investigations progress without delay and adhere to statutory guidance.
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Provide advice and support to organisations on safer recruitment, professional conduct, and safeguarding policy.
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Track, monitor, and review active LADO cases, ensuring compliance with statutory timescales and quality standards.
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Prepare reports, case summaries, and analysis for senior leaders, the Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership, and external inspectors.
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Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Safeguarding &amp; Family Support Team to work full time based in Slough. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £60,285 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Make clear decisions around threshold for cases that are part of legal planning meetings, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated and decisions are recorded on the case file.</li><li>Carry out regular quality assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits that collaboratively involve social work staff to support their professional development, improve the consistency of practice and seek the views of families.</li><li>Use all available performance information and audit outcomes to efficiently manage their team, translating this information in a meaningful way so that all members of the team understand what is saying and what they need to do.</li><li>Responsible for the regular and effective appraisal of staff performance through Slough Children First’s appraisal process in order to provide clear direction and challenge to prevent drift and delay.</li><li>Directly supervises the Assistant Team Managers and Senior Social Workers in the team as per Slough Children First supervision policy.</li><li>Support all members of the team to actively seek the views of children and families to inform practice in individual cases and uses this feedback to shape the team, its learning and feed into the overall strategic direction of Slough Children First.</li><li>Lead team meetings to a high standard, ensuring that service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two way communications back up to managers from the team.</li><li>Maintain own professional development through training and other suitable mechanisms and keep up to date with changes in national, regional and local policy initiatives that will impact on the delivery of services and respond accordingly.</li><li>Supports the Assistant Team Manager to make effective day to day use of all available professional resources, addressing barriers and issues across Slough Children First and with partners where required through the development and maintenance of professional links with partner agencies and the voluntary sector, whilst supporting the links of the Assistant Team Manager.</li><li>Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.</li><li>Deputise for the Head of Service, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required. To undertake work outside office hours as necessary.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Team Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Experience within a management role</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li><li>Experience within Adult Social Work.</li></ul>
Contact: This Team Manager 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 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). 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 throughout the process and into your work placement.

Team Manager - Safeguarding & Family Support Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Fostering Team&nbsp;to work full time for Fostering Innovations, based in Uxbridge, Hillingdon. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,000 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To manage a team of Assistant Team Managers, Practice Managers and Supervision Social Workers.</li><li>To manage high quality Fostering Service ensuring that comprehensive support services and robust supervision is provided to all foster carers.</li><li>To supervise and manage a staff team, including social workers and other social work staff, providing support, supervision and advice.</li><li>To maintain the agency’s high standards, in order or promote positive outcomes for children and young people, and ensure that social work &nbsp;and foster care practice continues to achieve ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’ in Ofsted inspections.</li><li>To work closely with Fostering Manager and Directors in the assessment of prospective foster carers, adhering to timescales and Foster Panel activity.</li><li>To work closely with Directors to establish and maintain relationships with local authorities, and contribute to planning and developing the service in line with customer’s changing needs.</li><li>To commit to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and protecting them from risk of harm. The Agency recognises its responsibility to ensure safe working with children and young people.</li><li>Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, which may include occasional evenings and weekends.</li><li>To actively promote equality of opportunity and an anti-discriminatory service.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Team Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This Team Manager 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 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). 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 throughout the process and into your work placement.

Social Worker - Team Manager - Fostering Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Assistant Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in Slough.The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £53,587 per annum.Main duties:<ul>
<li>Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.</li><li>Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.</li><li>Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.</li><li>Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used in response to the presenting needs.</li><li>Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.</li><li>Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations including positive risk taking situations.</li><li>Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.</li><li>Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.</li><li>Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.</li><li>Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.</li><li>Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individuals development and ensure that individuals contributions are maximised.</li><li>Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.</li><li>Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.</li><li>Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.</li><li>Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.</li><li>When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Assistant Team Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This Assistant Team Manager 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 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). 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 throughout the process and into your work placement.

Assistant Team Manager - Children with Disabilities

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Safeguarding Team to work fulltime based in Wandsworth. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is packaged up to £47,582 per annum plus a £5,000.00 welcome bonus. Main duties:<ul>
<li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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 community is restricted.</li><li>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 circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers.</li><li>Arrange appropriate 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.</li><li>Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.</li><li>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 or diminished capacity.</li><li>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.</li><li>Act as Practice Educator for social work qualifying course students on practice placements (as appropriate) or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers completing their ASYE.</li><li>Working with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Work as part of project or process reans as required under the new operating model, ensuring excellent cross functional output.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Social Worker job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This Social Worker 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 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). 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 throughout the process and into your work placement.

Social Worker - Family Safeguarding Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel have an exciting Permanent opportunity available for a Senior Social Worker within the Brief Intervention Team to work full time based in Wandsworth.Salary up to: £52,082 per annumContract: PermanentHours: Full-time&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;we can offer you working arrangements that will enhance your work-life balance and a generous holiday allowance of 31 days plus bank holidays.&nbsp;&nbsp;We provide parking for staff that are working directly with children and families.Service priorities are families with very young children; children with complex emotional and behavioural needs; families where there are chronic parenting problems – including drug, alcohol and mental health issues; families where there is domestic violence. The service works with children of all ages, from unborn children to age 18 (where appropriate) and their families. A social worker in this service may hold a caseload which could include children who have a multi-agency child protection plan, pre proceedings under the PLO, care proceedings where the Department is proposing to permanently remove a child from the care of their family and place him/her with long-term foster carers, family members or for adoption; Adolescents showing mental health problems or offending behaviour whose family want them to be placed in care; and families of children with moderate learning difficulties, on the Autistic Spectrum or diagnosed with ADHD.&nbsp;Main duties:<ul>
<li>&nbsp;This Children's Service acts as the lead agency (with the Police) for Child Protection;</li><li>&nbsp;Carries out in-depth assessments of need and risk;</li><li>&nbsp;Supports and helps families in the short term in caring for their children;</li><li>&nbsp;Works with families and other agencies to reduce risk of harm;</li><li>&nbsp;Co-ordinates packages of support for children with complex needs;</li><li>&nbsp;Goes to court when needed to safeguard children</li><li>&nbsp;Makes plans for the care of children who cannot live at home</li><li>You will be responsible for delivering a high-quality and responsive&nbsp;social work service. We'll expect you to act as the lead professional in statutory cases - including child protection, care proceedings, and looked-after children - while undertaking the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families.</li><li>Work collaboratively with allied health and social care practitioners, bringing together and coordinating the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to safeguarding, as well as Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Review (APIR).</li></ul>
Requirements of the Social Worker:<ul>
<li>Degree or equivalent in social work</li><li>Current Social Work England registration</li><li>Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services</li></ul>
Staff Benefits:<ul>
<li>Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme</li><li>Childcare vouchers</li><li>New technology scheme</li><li>Interest-free loans on annual travel cards</li><li>Discounts at many leisure activities - Restaurants, shops, and other establishments</li><li>A wide range of developmental opportunities is also offered.</li></ul>
Contact:This Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.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 throughout the process and into your work placement.responsible for delivering a high-quality and responsive&nbsp;social work service. We'll expect you to act as the lead professional in statutory cases - including child protection, care proceedings, and looked-after children - while undertaking the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families.

Senior Social Worker - Brief Intervention Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Brief Intervention Team to work full time based in Wandsworth. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is packaged up to £49,503 per annumMain duties:<ul>
<li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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 community is restricted.</li><li>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 circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers.</li><li>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.</li><li>Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.</li><li>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 or diminished capacity.</li><li>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.</li><li>Act as Practice Educators for social work qualifying course students on practice placements (as appropriate) or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers completing their ASYE.</li><li>Working with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Work as part of project or process teams as required under the new operating model, ensuirng excellent cross functional output.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Social Worker job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This 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 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). 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 throughout the process and into your work placement.

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