Social Worker - Looked After Children Team

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £46,041 per annum.

Main duties:

* To undertake a range of children and families and safeguarding assessments.

* To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare, present and implement plans for work with children and their families based on such assessments.

* To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family network.

* To initiate where necessary Care Proceedings, attend Court and represent the Local Authority.

* To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare and implement appropriate care plans in line with C.L.A Procedures.

* To prepare and present a range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences and planning meetings.

* Manage workload, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.

* Commission a range of services designated to minimise risks and improve the wellbeing of service users and their carers.

* To be accountable for your practice and involve individuals, families, carers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices, options and linking them to support groups and networks.

* To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.

* To work with children and their families to ensure where appropriate a re-unification, where short term separation has been necessary.

* Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honesty.

* Raise and address issues of poor practice, internally via organisation procedures, and then independently if required.

* To have particular regard to all safeguarding issues and to ensure that they are raised appropriately through professional and managerial channels.

* Ensure practice is underpinned by evidence, policy, procedures and code of conduct to promote individuals rights to determine their own solutions, promoting problem-solving skills, whilst recognising how and when self-determination may be constrained by legislation.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Continual professional development.

* Social Work England registered.

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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