Specialist Chc Senior Social Worker in Rochester, Kent

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Specialist CHC Senior Social Worker to work Full Time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Specialist CHC Senior Social Worker job is up to £51,130 per annum.

Main duties:

• Take an active lead role in service and staff development, identifying areas needing improvement, presenting and implementing action plans which will facilitate optimal performance and encouraging positive within supervision.
• Provide quality formal and informal supervision to both qualified and unqualified staff, ensuring the team’s performance and quality meet and maintain excellent standards, and developed as needed.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care and support, taking a holistic whole family approach to ensure that the person’s needs are met and identify any impact on family members or others in their support network.
• Work closely with colleagues within the council and partners ensuring that person-centred outcomes are met in ways which utilise available resources as effectively as possible within budgetary constraints.
• Represent the local authority in a range of key meetings, panels, and groups, ensuring follow up on agreed actions and  work closely with colleagues within the council and external partners ensuring that person-centred outcomes are met in ways which utilise available resources as effectively as possible.
• Contribute to the development of new initiatives through attendance or leadership on working groups, multi-agency forums, training courses etc to develop on managing lone working procedures to ensure that services are delivered which meet the needs of the person and optimise the use of all resources.
• Maintain awareness of changes in legislation and related policies and practices and ensure all social work staff are also informed of these changes to enable consistent and timely implementation. This will include promoting and supporting the Council’s policies and procedures for safeguarding, carrying out duties and work at all times in a way that ensures the safeguarding and welfare of service users.
• At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time-to-time be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.
• Requirements of this Specialist CHC Senior Social Worker role:
• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.

Understanding of relevant legislation.

Relevant Social Work experience.

Contact:

This Specialist CHC Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.