Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities Team

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £58,323per annum.

Main duties:
To be responsible for complex cases and detailed assessments including, where appropriate, Child Protection Assessments.
To assist the Manager, as required in aspects of the Teams work including the allocation of work, maintaining, development and encouraging high-professional standards, and supporting the supervision and development of induvial staff.
To keep up to date with good practice guidance, current legislation, Government initiatives and local policies and procedures with a view to playing a lead role in disseminating these within the team.
To provide consultation, advice and guidance to team members on professional issues.
To assist the Head of Service in developing and maintaining projects within agreed timetables.
To represent the Manager or Head of Service at internal and external meetings where appropriate, and to act as Deputy to the Manager.
To write complex reports and briefings papers on policy and operational issues for the Team Manager, Head of Service, Chief Officer of Children and Families and to participate in a range of meetings, case conferences or task forces, service and project management groups.
To assist in ensuring that team members fulfil expectations in relation to the Councils statutory responsibilities, policies and standards and that the practice is anti-discriminatory.
To assist, when required, in ensuring that the Councils employee communication system (CASCADE) is fully implemented and maintained in order that all employees receive appropriate information and that employee feedback is encouraged.
To participate where appropriate in staff selection in accordance with equalities legislation good practice guidance and council procedures.
To actively participate in the overall management and development of the service through Team Meetings and Service wide meetings, attend and participate positively in Team and other meetings as required with a view to promoting the development of an integrated response to clients needs, concentrating on the delivery of an efficient and effective service.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker Job.
Degree or Equivalent in Social Work.
Current Social Work England Registration.
Post Qualifying Social Work Experience.
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. xwzovoh With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.