Social Worker/Experienced Worker- Fostering

2 weeks ago


Bedford, Bedford, United Kingdom Sanctuary Personnel Ltd Full time £37,890

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £37,890 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To work within the values of the Department as expressed within the Care Act and 'Putting People First', promoting autonomy independence, choice, and wellbeing.
  • To manage a workload independently, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties, exercising higher judgements and a degree of autonomy in situations of complexity, risk, uncertainty, and challenge, reflecting on first year in practice anticipating issues which may develop.
  • To accept responsibility and work with individuals facing complex social and family crisis, undertake a range of assessment and safeguard enquiries relating to vulnerable adults; making recommendations and decisions in carrying out actions relating to the liberty or safety of users, following best interests decisions, and where necessary in emergency situations, using the experience of line management and other experienced level social work practitioners.
  • To work in collaboration with service users to assess their needs and produce a statement of identified needs, agreed with, or shared with users.
  • To identify with service users a range of options available to meet the needs identified in line with the principles of Personalization/Self Directed Support.
  • To assist in deciding which of the range of options will be offered to the service user and to carry out necessary tasks to implement planned action.
  • To act as the named person for the service user to contact within the Department.
  • To be responsible for coordinating an agreed care plan and, where appropriate, to implement and evaluate agreed action, including direct work with some users.
  • To work in collaboration with staff from other agencies, such as Health, Education, Police, as well as service providers form within the Department or from the Private or Voluntary Sector.
  • To maintain appropriate and up to date records on work undertaken in accordance with the Departmental policy and to adhere to confidentiality and Data Protection, policy and procedures.
  • To attend case conferences and meetings as requested and produce reports as necessary.
  • To work as a member of a multi-agency team where required, undertaking duties agreed with the Team Manager/Line Manager.
  • To meet the requirements of Professional Capabilities Framework, Social Worker level, and of registration with the HCPC in respect of practice standards, conduct and professional development.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Continual professional development.
  • Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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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