Job Description
GHJ, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the Complex Needs Team to work Full Time based in Jersey.
The salary for this Advanced Social Worker job is up to £68,437 per annum.
Main duties:
- Advanced Social Workers have their practice recognised as exemplary and provide leadership and professional wisdom to their colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity. To ensure strong and effective working partnership with the Principal Social Worker to develop best practice as professional lead in assigned teams.
- Provide constructive challenge to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence. They contribute to the development of knowledge and promotion of excellence in their field using evidence-informed practice.
- Providing specialist professional leadership, across services or organisations, in area such as safeguarding and child protection. To ensure to the delivery of high-quality social work services to children and families to ensure the welfare of children is safeguarded and they are protected in accordance with the legal and statutory obligations of Jersey Children’s Service.
- This post holder must continuously demonstrate the highest standards of practice against the Children’s Social Care practice standards and their quality of practice must be demonstrate through equality assurance framework as exemplary.
- Using their practice expertise and experience, contribute to the development of the team in meeting service objectives, key performance targets and statutory requirements of social work legislation by acting as high-level practice consultants to social workers within the team, to other social workers and external professionals.
- Holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans hat treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people and their parents/carers.
- Deliver appropriate, open, accurate and straightforward communication to service users and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work team including any statutory intervention which may provide necessary, in order to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers.
- 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, always bearing in mind that such documents may be disclosable for the purpose of Serious Case Reviews.
Requirements of the Advanced Social Worker job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Advanced 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, GHJ 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.