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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £65,931 per annum.

Main duties:

• Plan, organise and be accountable for prompt referral, case co-ordination and implementation of care and protection plans on a day-to-day basis, working with children/young people and their families and carers in one or more social work specialist areas to deliver social services to a range of individuals. These include children/young people who are looked after, with complex needs, care leaders, those children/young people and families requiring post adoptive services, individuals affected by domestic violence, substance misuse, mental health and adverse childhood experiences. This can also include children/young people and families who live off island.
• Holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children/young people their families and carers.
• Deliver appropriate, open, accurate and straight forward communication to children/young people, their families and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work team including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary, in order to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of children/young people, their families and carers.
• Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Adhering to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and take responsibility for maintaining and improving personal knowledge and skills. To ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled and that members of the public and other professionals have confidence in the service.
• Create and maintain clear and accurate records to ensure that all relevant information is held as required by established procedures and best practice and in line with data protection, confidentiality, disclosure and consent policies.
• To attend and represent the children’s service in a range of multi-agency decision making and risk management meetings. To take part in complex meetings, which includes, but not restricted to, strategy meetings, fostering and adoption panels and core planning meetings. Be responsible for chairing core group meetings, child in need meetings and care planning meetings.
• As the lead professional, coordinate multi-agency, child/young people and family and carer involvement to ensure the delivery of improved outcomes of children and young people, which may be directed by the court.
• To create, deliver and prepare multi-agency and specialist training to a range of colleagues, stakeholders and carers in response to service needs and/or as part of business as usual.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• A social Work Degree or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working with children in care
• Good written and Verbal communication skills
• Good timekeeping skills.
• Experience of completing life story work

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.