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JOB-20240819-db742659

<h2>Social Worker - Safeguarding Team in Enfield</h2>

Specialism: social worker - children's safeguarding 
 Location: Enfield, UK 
 Salary: £39.04 per hour 
 Contract: ongoing 
 Working pattern: full time / part time (flexible hours available)


<h3>Job overview</h3>

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Social Worker to join the Safeguarding Team within Children's Services at the London Borough of Enfield. Based at Thomas Hardy House (N22 8EE), this role places you at the heart of protecting vulnerable children and promoting positive outcomes for families.

The position offers genuine flexibility, with standard working hours of 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, alongside alternative patterns such as compressed hours (e.g. 8am-6pm over four days) or varied start and finish times. Part-time arrangements are also available, making this an ideal role for balancing professional commitment with personal life.


<h3>Perks and benefits</h3>

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Flexible working options: Choose full time or part time hours, with a range of working patterns to suit your lifestyle.
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Competitive hourly rate: Earn £39.04 per hour, recognising your skills, experience, and professional responsibility.
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Locum advantages: Gain exposure to varied and complex safeguarding work while enhancing your professional portfolio.
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Meaningful impact: Make a direct and lasting difference to the safety, wellbeing, and futures of children and young people.
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<h3>What you will do</h3>

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Complete core assessments, pre-birth assessments, and detailed risk assessments in line with statutory guidance.
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Undertake Section 47 child protection investigations to safeguard children at risk of significant harm.
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Prepare high-quality court documentation, including Section 7 and Section 37 reports, and represent the local authority in court as required.
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Carry out regular home visits to monitor children's safety and wellbeing, maintaining accurate and timely case records.
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Convene and contribute to core group meetings, working collaboratively with multi-agency professionals.
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Participate in joint investigations and interviews with the police, including involvement in care proceedings where necessary.
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Develop, implement, and review care plans, supervise contact arrangements, and prepare comprehensive case conference reports.
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Attend and contribute to strategy meetings, child protection conferences, and Child in Need planning processes.
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</ul>

Sanctuary Personnel

Social Worker - Safeguarding Team 

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, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Safeguarding Team to work part time for Achieving for Children, based in Kingston. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,614 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<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>To 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 rage of legal options to support investigation and protection and accommodation; if required give evidence in court; using contingency planning to anticipate complexity and chancing circumstances.</li><li>Complete longer-term work with families in order to meet identified need and improve outcomes.</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 evidence throughout.</li><li>To ensure reports are prepared for Court are of high quality, and to support and prepare workers in the Court process, including giving evidence in Court, as required.</li><li>To 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 participate in the monitoring of service delivery against agreed targets, timescales and resources, taking action as appropriate to achieve desired outcomes.</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, policies 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><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 - Safeguarding Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2&nbsp;Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Hertfordshire. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,503 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To safeguard and promote the welfare of disabled children/young people and support their families and carers by working with cases appropriate to your assessed experience, skills and knowledge.</li><li>To assess the needs and circumstances.</li><li>To plan, carry out, review and evaluate social work practice with them and other professionals.</li><li>To support them, to represent their needs, views and circumstances.</li><li>To manage risk to children, young people, families, carers, self and others.</li><li>To manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.</li><li>To assist and provide advice to families and carers.</li><li>To maintain accurate and up to date knowledge of skills and resources by training and supervision.</li><li>To advise management of the needs and resources within the community.</li><li>To keep accurate and up to date records.</li><li>To demonstrate professional competence in social work practice by using current knowledge and working within agreed standards of best social work practice and carrying out duties in accordance with the HCPC codes of practice.</li><li>Contribute to/undertake the assessment and supervision of students, support new staff by coaching and taking part in joint work with less experienced staff to support them in their casework.</li><li>To work closely with other agencies within the community, both statutory and voluntary, in support of preventative strategies.</li><li>To maintain County Policies on Equal Opportunities and Anti-Racism.</li><li>To carry out other duties as defined by the Director of Children’s Services.</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.

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Support &amp; Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Lewisham. 
 
 The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,510per 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, 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>
</ul>

 
 Requirements of the Social Worker:

<ul>
<li>CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work of equivalent professional qualification.</li>

<li>Management qualification at least at Level 4.</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 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 w

Social Worker - Family Support & Safeguarding Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Safeguarding &amp; Support &amp; Court Team to work full time based in Haringey. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £47,857 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To undertake Assessments within the required timescales in accordance with the Framework.</li><li>To assess, and identify levels of risk and need and deliver protective or supportive service for children with Child Protection Plans.</li><li>To accommodate children and young people and initiate care proceedings when appropriate.</li><li>To formulate care plans in partnerships with children and young people, their families and other providers of care and assistance based on these assessments.</li><li>To provide verbal and written reports to child protection conferences, strategy meetings, planning meetings and reviews.</li><li>To maintain and develop up to date relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice.</li><li>To take responsibility for managing an individual caseload, having regard to relative needs of all service users and ensuring an effective use of time and resources.</li><li>To attend and actively make use of supervision and performance appraisal.</li><li>To contribute through team meetings and organizational events to the development of the service.</li><li>To maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with policies and procedures.</li><li>To ensure that all expenditure on cases is properly authorized and recorded, and that cases with financial packages are regularly monitored and reviewed.</li><li>To ensure that all legislation and local council policies regarding Health and Safety are adhered to.</li><li>These activities may be varied from time to time to meet the changing needs of the service.</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>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 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.&nbsp;

Social Worker, Safeguarding & Support & Court Team

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Family Support &amp; Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Dagenham. The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £48,511 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To have a caseload of complex family proceedings and children deemed to be at high risk of significant harm. The senior 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 Worker, Newly Qualified Social Workers subject to Assessed and Supported Year in Employment and family support practitioners.</li><li>&nbsp;To share specialist social work knowledge and research across the social work unit.</li><li>Working within the London Child Protection procedures to undertake key work responsibilities for children subject to a child protection plan.</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 act alert Practice Managers of any concerns in relation to staff performance.</li><li>Undertake assigned projects, ensuring that agreed outcomes are delivered on time, within budget and to the expected standard.</li><li>Undertake staff management and supervisory responsibilities, including the recording of absences, appraisal, recruitment, development, welfare, discipline, deployment, motivation, etc.</li><li>Foster teamwork involvement with staff to increase performance. Create an environment for ideas and innovations to be explored and work practices challenged. Encourage staff to meet their full potential.</li><li>Ensure compliance with and actively promote the Council’s Equalities and Diversity policies and strategies.</li><li>Take responsibility for continuing self-development and participate in training and development activities.</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.=

Social Worker - Family Support & Safeguarding 

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Safeguarding &amp; Support Social Worker to work full time based in Haringey. The salary for this permanent Safeguarding &amp; Support Social Worker job is up to £47,857 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To assess, identify levels of risk and need and deliver protective or supportive service for children with a Child Protection Plan.</li><li>To implement Child Protection Plans by working in partnership with parents and colleagues from other agencies to effect better outcomes for children with Child Protection Plans.</li><li>To accommodate children and young people and initiate care proceedings when appropriate.</li><li>To formulate care plans in partnerships with children and young people, their families and other providers of care and assistance based on these assessments.</li><li>To provide verbal and written reports to child protection conferences, strategy meetings, planning meetings and reviews.</li><li>To maintain and develop up to date relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice.</li><li>To take responsibility for managing an individual caseload, having regard to the relative needs of all service users and ensuring an effective use of time and resources.</li><li>To maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with policies and procedures.</li><li>To ensure that all expenditure on cases is properly authorised and recorded, and that cases with financial packages are regularly monitored and reviewed.</li><li>To ensure that all legislation and local council policies 3regarding Health &amp; Safety are adhered to.</li><li>To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.</li><li>Understanding and commitment to promoting and implementing the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Safeguarding &amp; Support 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 Safeguarding &amp; Support 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.&nbsp;

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