Senior Social Worker and Designated Safeguard Lead

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker & Designated Safeguard Lead to work full time for TCES based in Newham.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker & Designated Safeguard Lead job is up to £53,500 per annum.

Main duties:

• Take professional responsibility for managing a highly complex caseload of pupils requiring intensive intervention.
• Lead the coordination and delivery of multiagency assessment & care planning for those pupils who have Early Help, Child in Need & Child Protection Plans & those children who are looked after.
• Hold overall responsibility for coordination of partnership working and multiagency liaison, planning, intervention, monitoring and review, through effective partnership working and collaboration with all key stakeholders, parents/carers, commissioners, local authorities and engaged professionals.
• Ensure a high standard of case recording, case report writing where appropriate, as well as attendance at statutory meetings.
• Fulfil the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) at both Create Primary and Create in the Community Service Secondary provision.
• Liaise with the Head of Safeguarding, Head of Service, Director of Children & Families when a child makes an allegation against a member of staff or a person in a position of trust.
• Liaise with staff on matters of safety and safeguarding and act as a source of support, advice and expertise for staff.
• Play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture and mentor staff in all aspects of safeguarding and child protection.
• Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis, judgements and decisions by maintaining up to date case work records on the child’s management information system.
• Provide Senior Leadership with performance data and analysis to help improve practice.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker & Designated Safeguard Lead job:

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

Contact:
This Senior Social Worker & Designated Safeguard Lead job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.