Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £46,116 per annum.

Main duties:

* Fundamental to fulfilling the responsibilities of this post is the ability to respond flexibly, positively and successfully to the ever-changing pressures and agendas faced by agencies working within children, young people and their families.
* As an experienced social worker you are expected to understand the level and nature of the responsibilities that you will accept within the team, offering supervision and leadership to both peers and less experienced professional staff.
* To undertake assessment of needs of children and their families.
* To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare and present and implement plans for work with families based on such assessments.
* To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family network.
* To involve individual, families, carers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices and options and link them to support groups and networks.
* To be accountable for individuals, families, carers, groups and communities for their practice.
* To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.
* To have knowledge of services relevant to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities (not just those offered by their organization) and how to access other relevant services.
* To work with children and their family to ensure where appropriate re-unification, where short term separation has been necessary.
* To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare and implement care plans in line with C.L.A. procedures.
* To prepare and present range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences and planning meetings.

Requirements of this role:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
* This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

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.