Principal Social Worker: Emergency Duty and Assessment Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Principal Social Worker in the Emergency Duty and Assessment Team to work full time based in Northampton.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,145 per annum.

Main duties:

• The Emergency Duty team runs an out-of-hours service, responding to statutory emergencies and other social work matters within the childcare and adult arenas
• The positions within the team are principal social worker roles
• This is on a rota basis, and you will provide an emergency statutory social work duty service out-of-hours with minimal supervision
• The ability to work autonomously is therefore paramount
• You will provide guidance and support to sessional and unqualified staff
• You will take the lead in child protection investigations, adult safeguarding investigations and will undertake Mental Health Act assessments as Approved Mental Health Professionals, ensuring that services are delivered within the legislative and statutory planning frameworks, Government Guidance, the Trust’s Core Values and Strategic Aims, and Service policies and procedures
• The role includes assessing the needs of children and their families against the Departments agreed threshold criteria and in accordance with National Guidance with set timescales, the creation and implementation of culturally appropriate care plans that demonstrate flexibility and innovative use of resources, and which will fulfil the statutory requirements of the Department until the next working day

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent
• AMHP Award
• Understanding of relevant legislation
• Continual professional development
• Social Work England registered

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.