Senior Social Worker - Adult Locality Team Sanctuary Personal

Senior Social Worker – Adult Locality Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Adult Locality Team to work full-time based in Surrey.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £44,619 per annum.

• Take professional responsibility for managing a complex caseload, which includes individuals, children, carers, and families who require support and guidance.
• Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision-making and be able to sustain engagement with fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility and risk.
• Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation.
• Use professional judgement, employing a range of interventions: promoting independence, providing support and protection, taking preventative action, and ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks.
• Take the lead in managing positive interventions that prevent deterioration in health and wellbeing whilst safeguarding people at risk of abuse or neglect.
• Undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding in more complex cases and support colleagues by utilising safeguarding skills, in line with current policies and procedures.
• Play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture, and mentor less experienced staff.
• Deliver formal professional reflective supervision and provide guidance and advice regarding casework to less experienced qualified staff.
• Where required, take the role of practice educator (or train as a practice educator) for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.
• As part of the supervision and appraisal process, provide support with personal and professional development.
• Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis and judgements, maintaining up-to-date case work records on the database as required.
• Take responsibility for working within the Directorate’s data protection policies.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Equal Opportunities:
Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We are committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.