Social Worker – Awaken Team

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

The salary for this permanent social Worker job is up to £38,890 per annum.

Main duties:

• Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning
• Identify risk of abuse and investigate complaints of alleged neglect, abuse or ill-treatment of children; undertake assessments and, where appropriate, arrange accommodation for children, young people
• Apply critical reflection and analysis to inform and provide a rationale for professional decision-making
• Use judgement and authority to intervene with individuals, families and communities to promote independence, provide support and prevent harm, neglect and abuse
• Liaise with colleagues in own and other departments and external agencies in order to gather information and resources necessary for assessment and care planning activities
• Work to a range of legal options to support investigation and protection and give evidence in court in relation to care proceedings
• Lead Professional in assessing, planning and reviewing assessments and care plans of children subject to statutory intervention
• Ability to understand the Journey of the Child and plan for permanence with the child remaining central to all planning
• Manage  an allocated caseload of complex cases and maintain all statutory responsibilities updating case notes and other records, wrote reports and maintain chronologies as required
• Operate effectively within multi-agency and inter-professional partnerships settings and meeting

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• A social work qualification or equivalent
• Understanding of relevant legislation
• Continual professional development
• Social Work England registered
• Experience of management within children’s social care

Contact:
This Social Worker is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.