Senior Social Worker Preparing for Adulthood

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Preparing for Adulthood Team to work full time based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £46,857 per annum.

Main duties:

• To demonstrate understanding of the Council’s Customer Care Standards and ensure that these standards are met in order to deliver the Council vision of putting residents first.
• Accepting client cases, as allocated by the manager, in line with the departmental protocols for case allocation and workload management.
• Working with those clients who are most vulnerable, or at the most risk and will be expected to have a higher degree of professional autonomy and accountability for their work.
• Managing your own workload, with support from the manager in a way which: ensures professional best practice and integrity at all times, recognises the individual needs of each child/adult, and the importance of their family/carers.
• Assessing for and identifying eligible needs, deploying resources which maintain and promote children and young adult’s welfare/independence that may include, for example, respite/domiciliary care, support to carers or other appropriate services. Reviewing to ensure services remain appropriate to need.
• Recognising the needs of the child/adult in regards to referrals to other professionals to deliver the required services.
• To ensure vulnerable children/adults are protected by identifying circumstances where abuse may occur, or is occurring, and working collaboratively with others within the framework of the multi-agency safeguarding procedures to protect vulnerable children/adults.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of legislation in relation to Children/Adult Social Care and to be aware and responsive to changing legislative duties or guidance that impact of how Children/Adult Social Care is delivered.
• To identify and suggest any improvements to current ways of working in order to deliver a more efficient and effective service for customers.
• Complete other reasonable tasks in order to fulfil role purpose or as instructed by management.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.