Social Worker - Children with Disabilities Team
* To ensure that designated staff receive supervision and appraisal in accordance with the Supervision Code of Practice and Staff Appraisal guidelines. The senior practitioner will also be responsible for developing the training profile for each social worker in the team and ensuring that their continuing professional development is facilitated.
* To be responsible for the supervision of social work students on practice placements and to liaise with their universities as required.
* To convene, attend and chair professional and legal planning meetings as required and in line with delegated responsibilities.
* To provide the Team Manager with relevant information arising from supervision and appraisal regarding individual case decisions, workload management and professional development.
* Where the child is looked after by the local authority, to ensure the review and supervision of care arrangements in accordance with statutory regulation and to produce written reports and other documentation for this purpose.
* To deputise as required for the Assistant Team Manager and Team Manger in her/her absence.
* To undertake all relevant work with children and their families in accordance with legislation, departmental policies, procedures, eligibility criteria and timescales.
* To ensure that procedures for children with safeguarding plans and procedures for young people looked after are consistently applied.
* To implement, monitor and review care plans and to provide continuing advice, support and social work services to children, young people, their families, and their carers. This will include arrangements for funding and ensuring that the cost of provision remains within agreed budgets.
* To ensure effective and timely communication within and across the Business unit, so that key messages are conveyed to employees, partners, suppliers and other stakeholders in a consistent way.
* To take an active role in inter-professional and inter-agency working building own professional network and collaborative working across other organisations. Requirements of this Social Worker: * A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration. 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.
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