Social Worker - Care Leavers Team in Humber

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Care Leavers Team to work full time for Bradford Children & Families Trust. The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £46,142 per annum.

Main duties:

• Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users.
• Provide a Social Work Service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct therapeutic work, care planning and management.
• Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision-making in line with professional criteria and ensuring that casework is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed.
• Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organisational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, multiple significant risk factors, and the need to take into account the public interest.
• Ensure appropriate care for service users, demonstrating innovation with existing mainstream and specialist resources where appropriate.
• Accept responsibility for and supervision of services provided to those receiving care, undertaking expert and robust reviews of such cases.
• Work in partnership with other agencies and organisations to fulfil the provision of a Social Work Service, representing the perspective of the organisation.
• Maintain contact with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector professionals for information exchange, the exercise of judgement and to influence outcomes in case planning and decision-making.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments, chairing and leading meetings when required, and participate in planning meetings and reviews, promoting information sharing within/between organisations.
• Self-manage a challenging and demanding workload of cases, seeking support where necessary, and undertake research, applying knowledge regarding emerging best practice.
• Participate in the provision of training throughout the department, assisting in the development of new resources, working on specialist projects and acting as a member of a professional development or service planning group.
• Maintain up to date, accurate, concise and purposeful records of work in line with departmental policy on case recording and access to files, producing high-quality assessments that accurately assess and manage higher levels of risk and complexity.
• Act in accordance with the priorities and policies of the department, actively promoting and supporting the council policies on equality and working in an anti-oppressive manner.

Requirements of this Social Worker:

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

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.