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JOB-20240819-db742659

<h2>Principal Social Worker - Care &amp; Support Team</h2>

Specialism: Children's Social Work 
 Location: Powys, UK 
 Salary: £41.43 hourly 
 Contract: Ongoing Locum 
 Hours: Full-Time


<h3>Overview</h3>

Join Powys Children's Services as a Principal Social Worker within the Care and Support Team-a pivotal role designed for an experienced practitioner ready to lead, influence, and elevate social work practice. This full-time, ongoing locum position offers an excellent hourly rate and the opportunity to drive high standards across statutory children's services in one of the most beautiful regions of Wales.

As the Principal Social Worker, you'll deliver expert guidance, champion strengths-based practice, and ensure that interventions remain child-centred, evidence-informed, and fully aligned with the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.


<h3>Perks &amp; Benefits</h3>

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Full-Time Role: Immerse yourself fully in a leadership position that offers professional satisfaction and meaningful impact.
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Hourly Pay: Enjoy the transparency and flexibility of hourly earnings, supporting a balanced working rhythm.
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Professional Development: Access workshops, training, peer learning, and ongoing CPD to support your specialist growth.
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Networking Opportunities: Collaborate with a broad spectrum of multi-agency partners, strengthening integrated working.
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Beautiful Location: Experience the scenic surroundings and community warmth that make Powys a fantastic place to live and work.
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<h3>What You Will Do</h3>

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Lead on professional standards within the Care and Support Team, modelling and promoting best practice.
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Provide expert mentorship, guidance, and reflective supervision to Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, and Newly Qualified Social Workers.
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Oversee the quality of assessments, plans, direct work, and case decision-making across the service.
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Offer specialist consultation on complex safeguarding matters, high-risk decision-making, and escalated concerns.
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Support induction, training, and ongoing development of new and existing staff, identifying team-wide practice needs.
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Work closely with the Team Manager on service planning, quality assurance, and performance monitoring.
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Build effective partnerships across agencies-including police, health, and education-to strengthen collaborative safeguarding practice.
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Sanctuary Personnel

Principal Social Worker - Care and Support Team 

JOB-20240819-db742659Position: Principal Social Worker within MASH Team Location: Cardiff, UK Salary: £43.28 Hourly Employment Type: Ongoing, Full-time Begin your exciting journey as a Principal Social Worker within the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub in vibrant Cardiff. This is a remarkable opportunity to lead and shape practice and performance while honing your risk assessment and management skills. With this role, you will support the Team Manager and the Team in delivering the Signs of Safety approach, ensuring a high-quality service to the community. Perks and benefits:- Hourly Salary: Enjoy a competitive hourly rate of £43.28, offering flexibility and control over your earnings. - Work-life Balance: Relish in flexible working arrangements with equipment provided for agile work, giving you the advantage of balancing your professional and personal life effectively. - Career Development: Access unique opportunities for professional growth and career progression within a supportive and dynamic team environment. - Networking: Work in collaboration with various partner agencies, promoting professional relationships that enrich your expertise. What you will do:- Lead a small sub-team, focusing on staff development and supervision to ensure the team reaches its full potential. - Manage high-risk strategy meetings in rotation with fellow sub-team leaders, ensuring comprehensive risk evaluations. - Assist the Team Manager with referral “Ragging,” allocations, and authorising social worker assessments, ensuring efficient workflow. - Collaborate closely with MASH Partner Agencies to enhance professional and meaningful relationships. - Participate actively in service development and Task Force Groups, driving continuous improvement. - Work in a fast-paced environment, confidently making decisions and managing risks to safeguard children and young people effectively. - Provide on-site support as required by working on a rota basis to assist the Team Manager. Cardiff is a fantastic city to live and work in, offering a lively blend of cultural attractions, scenic parks, and a welcoming community. Engage in this thriving location where professional opportunities and a rich lifestyle go hand in hand. Join us and make a significant impact on the social care landscape in Cardiff. Working with Sanctuary Personnel:Sanctuary Personnel is a trusted and award-winning agency for roles. With an ‘Excellent’ rating on Trustpilot from over 1,000 reviews and many prestigious industry awards, we are dedicated to finding you the best possible rates in roles that match your skills and experience.

Principal Social Worker - MASH Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Principal Social Worker within the Emergency Duty Team to work full time based in Northamptonshire. 
 
 The salary for this permanent Principal Social Worker job is up to £48,911 per annum. 
 
 Main duties:

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<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, ensuring excellent cross functional output.</li>
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Requirements of this Principal 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>

<li>Experience within Adult Social Work.</li>
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Contact: 
 This Principal 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 t

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