Designated Social Worker – HMP Cookham Wood

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Designated Social Worker within the HMP Cookham Wood Service to work full time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Designated Social Worker job is up to £44,567 per annum.

Main duties:

• Provide expert safeguarding advice and guidance to Senior Managers within the setting.
• Advise and support the safeguarding team on making child protection or child in need referrals to the relevant authority where appropriate.
• Work with the local authority designated officer (LADO) and the establishment Child Protection Coordinator where there are allegations against members of staff.
• Assist in the development and updating of children’s safeguarding policies and procedures within the establishment including for children visiting the establishment.
• Attendance at meetings relevant to the area of work including the YOI Safeguarding Meetings and Resettlement Planning and Review Meetings and LAC Meetings or those children and young people with whom the dedicated social workers may be actively involved. Social Workers will prioritise children in most need and support resettlement practitioners with all others.
• Develop and maintain effective links between establishment and local authorities both home and host in liaison with the Resettlement Practitioners and YOI. In doing so work in conjunction with Independent Reviewing Officers to ensure that Local Authorities meet their responsibilities towards children in custody and at release.
• Work in partnership will all providers in an establishment wide multi-disciplinary approach to effective intervention and constructive resettlement planning.
• Provide a range of services to children and young people placed in custody; including direct work with young people.
• At the discretion of the Head of Service and/or Manager, such other activities as may from time to time be required to ensure the needs of he service are met.

Requirements of this Designated Social Worker job:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Designated Social Worker job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.

Global Healthcare Jobs 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.