Social Worker, Edge Of Care Team in Middlesbrough, Cleveland

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Edge of Care Team to work Full Time based in Middlesbrough.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £49,114per annum.

Main duties:

• To undertake a comprehensive Social Work service to Children and Families who need support under Child in Need (S17) and Child Protection (Section 47), including PLO and Public Law Proceedings work with children who meet the criteria to be deemed at risk of requiring Local Authority Care.
• To ensure the child is at the centre of practice and their experiences and views are understood and considered in all that we do. To understand the child’s experiences with their family, peers, community and education environments and to work across all these aspects of a child’s life. To be able to apply relevant social work theories and research in a way that helps best understand the lived experiences of children, such as child development, attachment theory, impact of childhood trauma, and the cycle of grooming and sexual abuse.
• To formulate and design appropriate plans to meet identified needs and to arrange the implementation of such plans, including the chairing of core groups and CIN meetings. To make use of Child and Family Practice Discussions to hold on and pull for help when needed and ensure that plans are purposeful, and outcome focussed.
• To complete ongoing assessments of children and family’s needs, including the impact of intervention in timescales that meet the child/ren’s needs and as directed.  To work with children and families in a variety of diverse and complex contexts, such as mental ill health, disability, substance misuse, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, radicalisation, poverty, discrimination, and immigration.
• To complete assessments of the child’s needs in the event they require Local Authority care to enable appropriate homes to be identified for them and planning for transition into care. 
• To provide appropriate ongoing support to individuals and families as the key worker, this will include home visits, meetings, direct work/observations, completion of reports and assessments in relation to the child’s lived experience, including reports for conferences, reviews and other key decision making forums.
• To ensure that individual professional standards are maintained in line with agreed levels, including full compliance with policy and procedural guidelines and accepting primary responsibility for the level and quality casework recording. To access learning and development opportunities and cpd available.
• To feed back to the Team Manager any issues in relation to the effective provision of services or policies during regular supervisions. To take part in Child and Family Practice Discussions to share dilemmas and ensure effective systemic approaches to working with children.
• To record clearly and accurately the work undertaken on a child’s file. To use language in all recordings that reflects an anti-racist and anti-oppressive approach.
• Given the approach of the Edge of Care service there will be an expectation of evening and weekend work in line with the needs of children and their families.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

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

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

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This position is being managed by Sanctuary Personnel, a reputable recruitment agency known for placing candidates in desirable positions.