Social Worker – Assessment Team – Aylesbury

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,000 per annum.

Main duties:

• To deliver targeted and specialist social work services for children and young people in need of support, protection and care.
• To clarify eligibility and undertake statutory social work assessments, in line with agreed local thresholds, to analyse children and young people’s needs, risks and circumstances and confirm existing parenting skills and any capacity to change, as necessary and appropriate.
• To always promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and champion their rights and entitlements to improve their life chances and overall outcomes.
• To establish a rapport and build a relationship with children and young people to ascertain their views, wishes and feelings and understand their lived experience through direct work with them.
• To work collaboratively in partnership with parents/carers and promote a strengths based, relationship-focused model of approach.
• To work together with relevant multi-disciplinary professionals from across the multi-agency partnership.
• To develop, as appropriate, relevant support, protection and care/pathway plans to meet the assessed need and circumstances of children and young people.
• To work in consultation with relevant Managers to ensure that agreed plans are provided using available resources and ensure that all such requests represent values for money.
• To undertake all social work duties in accordance with appropriate legislation, policies, procedures and statutory guidance.
• To monitor and review the impact of support, protection and care plans to ensure that these continues to meet children and young people’s assessed needs and circumstances and delivers improved outcomes.
• To maintain all necessary records and documentation in line with agreed procedures and best practice standards, including children’s electronic records and other computerised systems.
• To identify any areas of assessed need that cannot be met and to systematically record the details to report the Team Manager.
• To practice in accordance with agreed performance and quality best practice standards and take appropriate remedial action to address audit feedback and management recommendations as required.
• To prepare for regular, reflective supervision and annual performance appraisal and progress agreed priorities and actions in a timely manner.
• To prepare an annual perfornal learning plan as part of the annual appraisal process and undertake continual professional development, including self-directed learning.
• To work as part of a team contributing to duty and covering for other colleagues when required to do so.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This 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.