Practice Specialist Social Worker, Adolescent Service

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Practice Specialist Social Worker within the Adolescent Team to work full time based in Wandsworth

The salary for this permanent Practice Specialist Social Worker job is up to £53,336 per annum.

Main duties:

• Actively promote and lead the embedding of our vision of our Outstanding Practice Framework across Children’s Social Care – this requires knowledge and skills in systemic practice and its application to social work.
• Hold a small portfolio of complex cases; including co-working complex cases with less experienced colleagues.
• Lead group reflective supervision spaces with teams and for social workers.
• Provide coaching to social worker in areas of practice improvement.
• Auditing of practice where there is identified need for improvement and developing improvement plans.
• Devise, develop and deliver practice workshops around identified areas of improvement arising from audit, including monitoring of impact of practice development.
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in quality assurance and training & development to embed practice improvement, monitor impact and disseminate learning.
• To work closely with the designated Service Cluster and the Principal Social Worker to provide practice leadership, swift and timely response to practice improvements and monitor impact of improvements to practice.
• To work closely and collaboratively with colleagues to ensure children families receiving outstanding quality service across Children’s Social Care.
• Maintain up to date detailed knowledge of legislation at national policy and to ensure practitioners, teams and designated service areas are briefed on changes. This will include the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children Act, threshold applications for children in need and children at risk of significant harm; Children Act 2004, and care planning, fostering and adoption regulation and guidance in relation to young people looked after.
• Excellent knowledge of theory, conceptual frameworks, practice approaches, research and evidence based interventions that underpin effective social work practice – including awareness of current issue and debates social work profession and social work academia.
• To work closely with and be fully committed to the implementation of Family Safeguarding in Wandsworth leading and creating opportunities to develop practice for social workers working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues.

Requirements of this Practice Specialist Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Practice Specialist Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.