Social Worker – Children Looked After

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Children Looked After Team to work Full Time based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £39,186 per annum.

Main duties:

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of children/young people and support their families and carers by working with cases appropriate to your assessed experience, skills and knowledge.
• To assess the needs and circumstances.
• To plan, carry out, review and evaluate social work practice with them and other professionals.
• To support them, to represent their needs, views and circumstances.
• To manage risk to children, young people, families, carers, self and others.
• To manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.
• To assist and provide advice to families and carers.
• To maintain accurate and up to date knowledge of skills and resources by training and supervision.
• To keep accurate and up to date records.
• Contribute to/undertake the assessment and supervision of students, support new staff by coaching and taking part in joint work with less experienced staff to support them in their casework.
• To carry out any other duties as defined by the Director of Children’s Services.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

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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