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JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker &amp; Designated Safeguard Lead to work full time for TCES based in Newham. The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker &amp; Designated Safeguard Lead job is up to £53,500 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Take professional responsibility for managing a highly complex caseload of pupils requiring intensive intervention.</li><li>Lead the coordination and delivery of multiagency assessment &amp; care planning for those pupils who have Early Help, Child in Need &amp; Child Protection Plans &amp; those children who are looked after.</li><li>Hold overall responsibility for coordination of partnership working and multiagency liaison, planning, intervention, monitoring and review, through effective partnership working and collaboration with all key stakeholders, parents/carers, commissioners, local authorities and engaged professionals.</li><li>Ensure a high standard of case recording, case report writing where appropriate, as well as attendance at statutory meetings.</li><li>Fulfil the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) at both Create Primary and Create in the Community Service Secondary provision.</li><li>Liaise with the Head of Safeguarding, Head of Service, Director of Children &amp; Families when a child makes an allegation against a member of staff or a person in a position of trust.</li><li>Liaise with staff on matters of safety and safeguarding and act as a source of support, advice and expertise for staff.</li><li>Play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture and mentor staff in all aspects of safeguarding and child protection.</li><li>Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis, judgements and decisions by maintaining up to date case work records on the child’s management information system.</li><li>Provide Senior Leadership with performance data and analysis to help improve practice.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker &amp; Designated Safeguard Lead 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 Senior Social Worker &amp; Designated Safeguard Lead 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.

Sanctuary Personnel

Senior Social Worker and Designated Safeguard Lead 

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Lead Child Protection Practitioner to work Full Time based in Redbridge.The salary for this Lead Child Protection Practitioner job is up to £59,646 per annum.Main duties:<ul>
<li>Have an applied understanding of what constitutes a child suffering actual or likely significant harm. To consider the severity, duration and frequency of any abuse, degree of threat, coercion, or cruelty, the significance of others in the child’s world, including all adults and children in contact with the child.</li><li>Know the limits and strengths of their personal expertise and agency remit. They will work collaboratively and proactively with multi-agency practitioners to build an accurate and comprehensive understanding of a child’s daily life and family.</li><li>Responsible for deciding what action to take and how to proceed following the child protection investigation, ensuring decisions are made based on the multi-agency discussions and informed by the voice of the child.</li><li>Consider the evidence presented to a conference, make judgements about the likelihood of a child suffering significant harm in future and decide whether the child is at continuing risk of significant harm.</li><li>Share and analyse in an inter-agency conference the information which has been obtained about the child’s developmental needs, and the parents capacity to respond to these needs to ensure the child’s safety and promote the child’s health and development within the context of the wider family and environment.</li><li>The decision on whether the child will be considered for a child protection conference will be made subject to a child protection plan, giving independent consideration to the professional’s views at the meetings.</li><li>Ensure a complete and correct of the discussion and decisions of the child protection conference, including any dissent. The conference chair is accountable for this record’s content and its timely distribution.</li><li>Remain the allocated Lead Child Protection Practitioner for the child. Oversee the delivery of the child protection plan by Family Help, ensuring child protection review conference are held promptly.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Lead Child Protection Practitioner job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li></ul>
Contact: This Lead Child Protection Practitioner 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.

Lead Child Protection Practitioner

JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title:&nbsp;Social Practice Manager - MASH Team 
 Location: London Borough 
 Salary: £58,323 - £64,653 per annum 
 Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Practice Manager to lead our thriving Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Team in one of London's most vibrant boroughs. This is a pivotal leadership role where you will ensure that children at risk of harm receive timely, proportionate, and effective support. You'll be managing an enthusiastic and dedicated team of professionals, driving high standards of safeguarding excellence in a borough known for its cultural diversity and community spirit.


<h3>Perks and Benefits</h3>

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Competitive salary of £58,323 - £64,653 per annum, recognising your expertise and leadership
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Full-time, permanent role offering job stability and rewarding challenges
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Ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance your skills and career progression
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Inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration
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A supportive team environment that prioritises work-life balance
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<h3>What You Will Do</h3>

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Lead and manage the daily operations of the MASH team, ensuring efficient workflows and timely safeguarding decisions
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Provide reflective supervision, appraisals, and professional guidance to social workers and support staff
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Allocate, screen, and monitor referrals in line with statutory thresholds and safeguarding protocols
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Promote collaborative working across partner agencies, strengthening the effectiveness of the MASH function
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Audit casework, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with statutory guidance
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Contribute to workforce development, training, and service improvement within the MASH team
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<h3>Person Specification</h3>

Qualifications &amp; Registration

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Recognised Social Work qualification (BA/MA Social Work, DipSW, CQSW)
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Current registration with Social Work England
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Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
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Essential Experience

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Substantial post-qualification experience in children's s
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Social Practice Manager - MASH Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support &amp; Protection Team to work full time based in Basildon, Essex. The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £50,290 per annumMain 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 discerningly 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 individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.</li><li>Mange complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.</li><li>Promote positive working relationships in and across team 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 requirments 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 influence on wider service budget.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner 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 Senior Practitioner 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 Practitioner - Family Support & Protection Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the MASH Team to work full time based in Barking &amp; Dagenham.The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £57,194 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To hold complex family proceedings and or children deemed to be at high risk of significant harm. The Senior Social Worker will be expected to demonstrate the ability to record to a high standard capturing the voice of the child, show evidence of analysis and reflection throughout.</li><li>To act as lead practice educator for the social work unit by providing support and advice and offer shadowing opportunities to Student Social Workers, Newly Qualified Social Workers subject to Assessed and Supported Year in Employment and Family Support Practitioners or lead on an area of specialism such as advanced court work skills.</li><li>To ensure the provision of a comprehensive induction for all new staff.</li><li>To ensure that services are efficiently and effectively provided, liaising as necessary with other Council Divisions, Health, Education, Police, voluntary and independent sector providers.</li><li>Working within the London Child Protection procedures to undertake key work responsibilities for children subject to a child protection plan.</li><li>To work collaboratively with other Council Divisions, Statutory Agencies including health, Education and Police, and other independent and voluntary service providers.</li><li>In conjunction with the Practice Managers and Senior Team Manager, to maintain performance standards in line with division expectation and national guidance, and to alert Practice Managers of any concerns in relation to staff performance.</li><li>Ensure high standards of records management and assume responsibility for all information assigned to the post.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:<ul>
<li>A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Relevant Social Work experience.</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 - MASH Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Pre-Birth Team to work full time based in Redbridge. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £46,041 per annum. 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 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>Take responsibility for identifying and responding to areas of risk including Health and Safety and Business Continuity</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><li>Experience within Adult Social Work.</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 - Pre Birth 

JOB-20241111-a044c399Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Support Worker within the Early Help Team to work full time based in Redbridge. The salary for this permanent Support Worker job is up to £31,731 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>The Family Support Worker is expected to work in partnership with the Senior Family Support Worker and Managers using effective communication skills to ensure that the team is able to deliver effective, efficient services.</li><li>To work alongside staff delivering a range of services to families and young children including developing “Team Around the Child” and be responsible for holding an individual case load.</li><li>As a member of the Families Together Hub provide cover for absent colleagues to ensure a seamless service for the client.</li><li>To prepare and present reports for a wide variety of audiences and case conferences, core group meetings and court and to support and assist staff to ensure that work in this area is completed to the required professional high standard and within timescales.</li><li>To participate in referral meetings, reviews, case discussions, threshold meetings, care plan meetings and any other relevant professional meeting. Organising, chairing and taking minuets in team around the child meetings. Ensuring service users fully understand the process.</li><li>To complete case recordings to a high standard, working with other staff to ensure this is done in line with departmental procedures.</li><li>To work in partnership with families, monitoring their needs through accurate record keeping, care planning and case recording and gaining consent to share information when appropriate.</li><li>To be a good role model by demonstrating how to approach sensitive and personal issues with parents/carers in a professional manner.</li><li>To keep up to date and implement any legislation or procedures in relation to service delivery, disseminating as necessary to other staff.</li><li>To actively promote and encourage diversity and a multi-cultural ethos through every aspect of the service.</li><li>To ensure health and safety procedures are followed within own areas of responsibility, ensuring that health and safety requirements are met including lone working procedures.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Support Worker job:<ul>
<li>A Social Work Degree or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li><li>Past management experience.</li><li>Good written and Verbal communication skills.</li><li>Good timekeeping skills.</li></ul>
Contact: This Support 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.

Support Worker - Early Help

JOB-20241111-a044c399Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Family Support Worker within the Targeted Early Help Service Team to work full time based in Barking &amp; Dagenham. The salary for this permanent Senior Family Support Worker job is up to £44,331 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To supervise and line manage a small team of practitioners in line with the supervision policy, escalating issues of concern for management review and decision making as required.</li><li>To be responsible for ensuring effective risk management, comprehensive assessments and outcomes focused plans are in place.</li><li>Complete accurate and timely records to capture the rationale behind the initial threshold decision and recommendations.</li><li>Ensure all work meets the requirements and timeframes outlined within the Targeted Early Help Practice Standards.</li><li>Ensure that safeguarding children is central to all work completed and that appropriate action is taken in line with the borough’s safeguarding procedures.</li><li>In consultation with team managers, make decisions on casework, reviewing assessments and recommending appropriate levels of intervention and support, identifying cases that require transfer to the social work teams.</li><li>To work with the Team Manager to ensure consistent delivery across the localities and an equal distribution of work across the borough. This may involve moving staff between localities to manage demand.</li><li>To contribute to developing the local early help partnership, chairing meetings as required.</li><li>To be responsible, together with the line manager and other managers, for the provision of management information and its interrogation to inform service provision and meet performance indicators.</li><li>To liaise effectively and work with universal and statutory services where appropriate.</li><li>To assess and monitor risk for children and young people and take responsibility for informing the appropriate statutory safeguarding agencies where appropriate.</li><li>To take responsibility for updating specialist knowledge in the chosen service area and to undertake training as identified.</li><li>To contribute to local and departmental training on practice issues in line with departmental policies and procedures, in light of research findings.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Senior Family Support Worker job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li></ul>
Contact: This Senior Family Support 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). 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 Family Support Worker - Targeted Early Help Service

&nbsp;JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Social Worker within the Violence, Vulnerability and Exploitation Team to work full time based in Barking. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £38,850 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To ensure compliance with your responsibilities as laid out in the council’s equal opportunity policy and take an active role in promoting equality and diversity and to Harrow’s diverse community. Or to ensure compliance with your responsibilities as laid out in the council’s equal opportunity policy and take an active role in promoting and enabling equality of opportunity, promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of Harrow’s community, ensuring equality and diversity is mainstreamed in all service/directorate activities.</li><li>To undertake all work in a manner that is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.</li><li>To contribute to the formulation of the Service Plan and to be clear about Team priorities as they relate to the social work role and function.</li><li>To prepare for regular supervision and reflective practice consultations concerning casework practice and ensure that work is progressed and completed as agreed.</li><li>To contribute to regular individual performance and development consultations and undertake any necessary training and professional learning and development.</li><li>To take responsibility for ensuring that all work undertaken in connection with assessment, planning, monitoring, and review functions are undertaken in an efficient and effective manner which demonstrates a positive impact and outcome for Children, young people, and their families.</li><li>To strive to achieve and maintain best practice standards in all aspects of the work undertaken and exercise sound professional judgements at all times.</li><li>To seek direction, advice, guidance and support whenever necessary and appropriate and to ensure that the Senior Practitioner/Team Manager is notified of any situation concerning risks about the safety or wellbeing of a child.</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 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.
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Social Worker - Violence, Vulnerability and Exploitation Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced &nbsp;Senior Social Worker within the Looked After Children (LAC) Team to work full time based in Brent. 
 
 The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £49,355 annum. 
 
 Main duties:

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<li>Work independently to hold and effectively manage a more complex caseload, acknowledging and ensuring levels of responsibility commensurate with the individual's knowledge and skills.</li>

<li>Work directly with children, young people and families, involving all key family members and prioritising children and young people's safety. Work using signs of Safety Methodology, which work collaboratively with families to empower them to find solutions whist ensuring working within the policies, procedures of Children's Services and regulatory standards.</li>

<li>Carry out in depth and ongoing family assessment of social need and risk to children, with particular focus on parental capacity and capacity to change.</li>

<li>Recognise harm and risk indicators of different forms of harm to children relating to sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and neglect. Consider the possibility of Child Sexual Exploitation, grooming (on and offline), female genital mutilation, enforced marriage and the range of adult behaviours which pose risk to children, recognising too the potential for children to be perpetrators of abuse.</li>

<li>Use reflective supervision, research and other guidance to recognising one's own professional limitations and how and when to seek advice from a range of sources, including Advanced Practitioners and other clinical practitioners from a range of disciplines. The post holder will work in conjunction with senior staff and managers through available support systems (supervision, appraisal, mentoring, co-working and work shadowing).</li>

<li>Navigate the family and youth justice system in England using legal powers and duties to support families, to protect children and to look after children in the public care system, including the regulated frameworks that support the full range of permanence options. Participate in decisions about whether to make an application to the family court, the order to be applied for and the preparation and presentation of evidence.</li>

<li>Seek advice and professional second opinion as required in relation to the legal issues, interventions and plans which frequently impact children, young people and families involved with statutory services.</li>

<li>Use the law and regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions. Take into account the complex relationship between professional ethics, the application of the law and the impact of social policy on both.</li>

<li>Make realistic child centred plans within a review timeline which will manage and reduce identified risks and meets the needs of the child. Any plans devised for the child need to be evidence informed, demonstrate clear analysis and professional judgement and evaluate decision making skills. This also includes working with multi-agency partners.</li>

<li>Continuously develop knowledge of child development and how this impacts on all aspects of a child's life. This includes physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioural development and the impact of different parenting styles. Have a good and continually developing understanding of adult behaviours; for example, adult mental health, domestic abuse, mental health, physical health, disability and substance misuse and the impact on, and inter-relationship between, parenting and child development.</li>

<li>Good understanding of working in a complex organisation such as a Local Authority, Trust or other delivery model for Children's Services. Act In ways that protect the reputation of Northamptonshire County Council and the wider social work profession whilst always privileging the best interests of children. Contribute to the organisation's role as corporate parent to children in public care.</li>
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Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

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<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 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 background

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