Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the Complex Needs Team to work full time based in Jersey.
The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Worker job is up to £72,874 per annum.
Main duties:
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Advanced Social Workers have their practice recognised as exemplary and provide leadership and professional wisdom to their colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity. To ensure strong and effective working partnership with the Principal Social Worker to develop best practice as professional lead in assigned teams.
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Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
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Provide specialist professional leadership, across services or organisations, in areas such as safeguarding and child protection.
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The post holder must continuously demonstrate the highest standards of practice against the children’s social care practice standards and their quality of practice must be demonstrated through equality assurance framework as exemplary.
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Provide professional mentoring and coaching around practice development to groups of staff and students, including supporting less experienced professionals to develop defendable, autonomous decision-making skills.
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Work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context, to develops strong and effective working partnerships with other agencies and services involved with children and families, by providing professional consultation and challenge, to ensure that positive outcomes are achieved in all key areas of their lives.
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Holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people and their parents/carers.
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Maintain highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adhere to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and take responsibility for maintaining and improving personal knowledge and skills in order to ensure that the criteria for continuing professionals have confidence in the service.
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Create and maintain clear and accurate records to ensure that all relevant information is held as required by established procedures and best practice and in line with data protection, confidentiality, disclosure for the purpose of serious case reviews, external inquiry and inspection, and to the royal court in respect of civil applications or in criminal proceedings associated with the protection of vulnerable individuals.
Requirements of this Advanced Social Worker job:
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A social Work Degree or equivalent.
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Understanding of relevant legislation.
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Social Work England registered.
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Minimum of 1 year experience working with children in care
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Good written and Verbal communication skills
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Good timekeeping skills.
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Experience of completing life story work
Contact:
This Advanced Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.