Social Worker - Safeguarding Team

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Safeguarding Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Kingston.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £48,840 per annum.

Main duties:

* To safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion, and linguistic background.
* 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.
* 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 proactive factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Maintain accurate and update case notes and other records, wrote reports as required, if required, give evidence in court in relation to care proceedings.
* 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.
* To demonstrate a commitment to own personal and professional development and to developing and coaching others.
* In the performance of all your duties, and in particular in the support and management of staff, to implement all Achieving for Children policies and procedures necessary to meet customer care needs and to reflect the Achieving for Children's vision and values.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

* A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
* Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

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.