Social Worker - Together Service Sanctuary Personal

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the 0-25 Together Service to work Full Time based in Apsley, Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £45,718 per annum.

• Provides professional leadership in situations are complex or ambiguous.
• Completes support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met (within budgetary constraints) through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• Actively engages with, assists and provides advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role.
• Acts as the lead professional when an adult is at risk of social exclusion and assists people to deal with adverse circumstances such as, poor health, poverty, inadequate living conditions, as well as maximising the strength of individuals, their families and their communities.
• Acts as the lead professional where a person is severely constrained by social or family circumstances and provides support to achieve a reasonable degree to independence and autonomy.
• Uses a person-centred approach, developing creative and personalised solutions to assist people to manage their lives independently for as long as possible.
• Acts as the lead professional when a person’s health or capacity is deteriorating or likely to deteriorate without investigation and the alternative may be premature admission to institutional forms of care or a legal intervention by the state in the lives of a family.
• Keeps and maintains accurate, up to date service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.
• Maintains accurate and up to date knowledge of resources through continual professional development, supervision and active engagement with local communities.
• Take responsibility for own professional development in line with Personal Development Plan, and performs at an appropriate level within the Professional Capability Framework.
• Undertakes specialist training as required to maintain and progress career within the organisation.

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

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.

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.