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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.

Sanctuary Personnel

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.

Social Worker - Brief Intervention Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting permanent opportunity available for an experienced Senior Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Hilingdon.Team/Specialism: Multi-Agency Safeguarding HubSalary: £44,628 per annumContract: PermanentHours: Full-time&nbsp;Benefits:<ul>
<li>Local government average salary pension scheme</li><li>Free parking (4 days a week) if based at the Civic Centre</li><li>A 36-hour week for all full-time staff</li><li>Generous holiday entitlement: a minimum 25 days a year (plus bank holidays), rising to 28 days after five years' service. For more senior positions holiday entitlements can rise to a maximum of 36 days</li><li>Career breaks</li><li>Flexible working hours</li><li>Season ticket loan</li><li>Access to a Credit Union</li><li>Access to a wide range of training and courses</li><li>Discount on a variety of Adult Education courses run by the Council</li><li>Payment of professional fees where these are required</li><li>Discounts at council-owned leisure centres and swimming pools at Hillingdon (Uxbridge), Queensmead (South Ruislip), Highgrove (Ruislip) and Botwell Green (Hayes)</li><li>Cycle purchase scheme</li><li>Car sharing scheme</li><li>30% discount on green fees at council-owned golf courses</li></ul>
Main Duties:<ul>
<li>Participate in Panel processes.</li><li>Chair professional meetings with inter-agency partners and clients.</li><li>To produce management information and analysis.</li><li>Participate in team planning and contribute to the delivery of team and service plans.</li><li>Demonstrate awareness and compliance with required Standards including the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework (Experienced Social Worker level).</li></ul>
Requirements of the Senior 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>
Contact:This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

Senior Social Worker - MASH

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available a Social Work Practitioner within the Referral &amp; Assessment Team to work full time based in Kingston. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,614 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.</li><li>To manage an agreed caseload of children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards.</li><li>Undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.</li><li>To work to range of legal options to support investigation and protection and accommodation; if required give evidence in court; using contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances.</li><li>To ensure the provision of clear written reports to child protection conferences, reviews, planning meetings and any other purpose as required, ensuring good quality casework analysis and risk assessment is evident throughout.</li><li>Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to formulate care plans in partnership, based on their assessment of need, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to their planning.</li><li>To ensure the planning and review of statutory work with children and young people is in accordance with statutory regulation and to produce written reports and other documentation for this purpose.</li><li>Maintain an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. To make effective use of supervision and appraisal as an opportunity to critically reflect on casework and to identify learning and development needs to continually improve upon practice; and to support continual professional development.</li><li>To establish and maintain good communication across children’s social care and with departments and agencies to facilitate the improvement and development of the service.</li><li>Ensure the wellbeing of employees and service-users by actively promoting and complying with health and safety regulations, polices and procedures.</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.

Social Worker - Referral and Assessment Team

&nbsp;JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Fostering Team to work full time based in Redbridge. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,815per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Fundamental to fulfilling the responsibilities of this post is the ability to respond flexibly, positively and successfully to the ever-changing pressures and agendas faced by agencies working with children, young people and their families.</li><li>As an experienced social worker you are expected to understand the level and nature of the responsibilities that you will accept within the team, offering supervision and leadership to both peers and less experienced professional staff.</li><li>To undertake assessment of needs of children and their families.</li><li>To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare and present and implement plans for work with families based on such assessments.</li><li>To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family networks.</li><li>To involve individual, families, carers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices and options and link them to support groups and networks.</li><li>To be accountable to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities for their practice.</li><li>To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.</li><li>To have knowledge of services relevant to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities (not just those offered by their organization) and how to access other relevant services.</li><li>To work with children and their family to ensure where appropriate a re-unification, where short term separation has been necessary.</li><li>To initiate where necessary Care Proceedings, attend Court and represent the Local Authority.</li><li>To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare and implement appropriate care plans in line with C.L.A procedures.</li><li>To prepare and present range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences and planning meetings.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Social Worker:<ul>
<li>CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work of equivalent professional qualification.</li><li>Management qualification at least at Level 4.</li><li>At least 1 years’ experience of supervising professional staff.</li><li>Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.</li><li>Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job’s responsibilities.</li></ul>
Contact: This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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 - Fostering Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a &nbsp;Senior Social Worker within the Kinship Team to work full time based in Hillingdon. The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £53,357per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Take professional responsibility for managing a complex caseload which will include individuals, children, carers and families who require support and guidance.</li><li>Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision-making and be able to sustain engagement with fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility and risk.</li><li>Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation.</li><li>Use professional judgement, employing a range of interventions: promoting independence, providing support and protection, taking preventative action and ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks.</li><li>Take the lead in managing positive interventions that prevent deterioration in health and wellbeing whilst safeguarding people at risk of abuse or neglect.</li><li>Undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding in more complex cases, and support colleagues by utilising safeguarding skills, in line with current policies and procedures.</li><li>Play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture and mentor less experienced staff.</li><li>Deliver formal professional reflective supervision and provide guidance and advice regarding casework to less experienced qualified staff.</li><li>Where required, take the role of practice educator (or train as a practice educator) for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.</li><li>As part of the supervision and appraisal process provide support with personal and professional development.</li><li>Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis and judgements, maintaining up to date case work records on the database as required.</li><li>Take responsibility for working within the Directorate’s data protection policies.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker Job.<ul>
<li>Degree or equivalent in Social Work.</li><li>Current Social Work England Registration.</li><li>Experience within Children’s Services.</li><li>Full Drivers Licence and have use of a vehicle.</li></ul>
Contact:This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

Senior Social Worker - Kinship Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Supporting Disabled Children Service Team to work full time based in Wandsworth. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,082 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases.</li><li>Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review (APIR).</li><li>Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.</li><li>Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adult’s services.</li><li>Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres and other settings.</li><li>Develop a good understanding of evidence based practice and integrate models of best practice into day-to-day service delivery.</li><li>Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.</li><li>Take part in case/practice audits and contribute to peer audit arrangements as required.</li><li>Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.</li><li>Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.</li><li>Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.</li><li>Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.</li><li>Demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children’s System.</li><li>Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.</li></ul>
Requirements of this role:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li><li>Understanding, knowledge and ability to follow guidelines to ensure compliance with Health &amp; Safety at Work, Data Protection and other statutory requirements.</li><li>This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).</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.

Social Worker - Supporting Disabled Children Service

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Senior Social Worker within the Family Safegaurding Team to work full time based in Wandsworth, London. The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £43.887 per annum. Main Duties:<ul>
<li>To manage contacts/referrals within an out of hours environment and ensure that appropriate reports are sent promptly to day services.</li><li>To maintain an up-to-date knowledge and awareness of relevant legislation, guidance and Departmental policies and procedures in respect of vulnerable children and adults.</li><li>To co-operate with the OOH administrator to ensure that the duty rota is fully operational, that log sheets are completed on each night and each day at weekend and bank holidays and that all relevant reports are entered on framework.</li><li>To prepare appropriately detailed reports in respect of assessments, care plans and any court proceedings to safeguard adults and children.</li><li>To work in partnership with service users who require social work intervention out of hours, and with those partner agencies who are accessible out of hours.</li><li>To maintain up to date knowledge of children’s and adult’s social work through learning and development activities, in line with continued HCPC and AMHP registration, and in line with any identified learning need.</li></ul>
&nbsp;Requirements of a Senior Social Worker:<ul>
<li>A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li></ul>
Contact: This Senior 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.

Senior Social Worker - Family Safeguarding Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children in Need Team to work full time based in Wandsworth. 
 
 The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,647 per annum. 
 
 Main duties:

<ul>
<li>Act as lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases.</li>

<li>Undertake the full range of social work tests with children in need and tehri families, assessment, planning, implementation and review.</li>

<li>Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.</li>

<li>Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children's and adults services.</li>

<li>Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children's centres and other settings.</li>

<li>Develop a good understanding of evidence based practice and integrate models of best practice into day to day service delivery.</li>

<li>Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.</li>

<li>Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.</li>

<li>Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.</li>

<li>Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.</li>

<li>Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, and homelessness.</li>

<li>Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventive and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.</li>

<li>Demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the use of the Council electronic case recording/reporting tool, maintaining accurate and up-to-date child records in compliance with the Integrated Children's System.</li>

<li>Promote and demonstrate the meaningful participation of children, young people and parents/carers in the process of APIR, in all aspects of decision making and in shaping service delivery.</li>

<li>Understand, promote and integrate into practice Council policies in relation to valuing diversity and promoting equalities.</li>

<li>Consider and put forward ideas for improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of Council services to children and families.</li>

<li>Contribute to the review of Council policies and procedures, particularly guidance and protocols for social workers.</li>

<li>Enhance and promote the reputation of the Council as a provider of high quality services to children and families.</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 r

Social Worker - Children in Need Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Slough Children First has a new permanent position available for a Assistant Team Manager within the Referral &amp; Assessment Team to work full time based in Slough. The salary for this permanent&nbsp;Assistant Team Manager job is up to £53,587 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>As a member of the Trust’s management team, provide day to day management of the team, providing appropriate support and challenge to ensure the delivery of high-quality services that safeguard the welfare of children and young people.</li><li>Make effective day to day use of all available professional resources and use a range of theoretical, evidence based and practical approaches including systemic practice to develop and implement effective interventions and support for children and families both within and outside of the family home.</li><li>Manage the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person’s needs are met appropriately.</li><li>Support and challenge the team to meet the requirements around thresholds for cases, managing the preparation of high quality reports for court or other purposes, challenging, providing expert advice to guide the team through legal and organisational processes as required.</li><li>Support and challenge the team in the completion of assessments, plans, toolkits based on identified need, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated, decisions and management oversight are recorded on the case file and any issues or concerns are escalated to the Team Manager to address.</li><li>Chair the first and transfer core groups and CIN meetings to a high standard, supporting social workers in further meetings as required.</li><li>Co-work complex cases with team members as required without taking on a specific caseload of their own.</li><li>Supervise social workers and non qualified staff in the team as per the Trusts supervision policy, supporting and supervising social work students, acting as a mentor to support them through their professional training.</li><li>Lead hub/group supervision to a high standard ensuring that all members are aware of progress on cases.</li><li>Promote direct work with children and young people, supporting all members of the team to actively seek the views of children and families to inform practice in assessment and planning in individual cases.</li><li>Participate in quality assurance activities to support professional development of staff and improve the consistency of practice.</li><li>Support the Team Manager to tackle under-performance, sickness absence and conduct both informally and formally and within the Trust’s policy framework.</li><li>Contribute to the Trust’s development with knowledge of an area of specialist practice and to provide consultation, coaching and mentoring within the Team, and across the service as a whole as required.</li><li>Develop and maintain own professional links and leads with partner agencies and the voluntary sector and support those of the Team Manager.</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>Represent the Trust’s values, leading by example in the delivery of these and setting a positive culture within your team, service and the Trust; challenge behaviour when it is not aligned with our values and take appropriate action; support a professional in a respectful; and child-focused environment which supports the Trust’s vision.</li></ul>
Requirements of this&nbsp;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: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.

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