Social Worker – Children in Need Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Uxbridge.

Team/Specialism: Children in Need/Child Protection

Salary: £41,384 – 45,383 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Benefits:

• Local government average salary pension scheme
• Free parking (4 days a week) if based at the Civic Centre
• A 36-hour week for all full-time staff
• Generous holiday entitlement: a minimum 25 days a year (plus bank holidays), rising to 28 days after five years’ service. For more senior positions holiday entitlements can rise to a maximum of 36 days
• Career breaks
• Flexible working hours
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a Credit Union
• Access to a wide range of training and courses
• Discount on a variety of Adult Education courses run by the Council
• Payment of professional fees where these are required
• Discounts at council-owned leisure centres and swimming pools at Hillingdon (Uxbridge), Queensmead (South Ruislip), Highgrove (Ruislip) and Botwell Green (Hayes)
• Cycle purchase scheme
• Car sharing scheme
• 30% discount on green fees at council-owned golf courses

Main Duties:

• Manage a wilder, increasingly complex social work caseload including safeguarding, with more autonomy.
• Demonstrate expertise in one or more areas of social work practice.
• Use range of frameworks for assessment and intervention.
• Provide support for trainees and other employees, including acting as a “buddy” for inductees.
• Take responsibility for obtaining regular, effective supervision from appropriate Social Worker to ensure effective practice, critical reflection, and career development.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding and use of knowledge related to area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence-based practice research.
• Recognise discriminatory practices and appropriately challenge service users, colleagues, and senior staff.
• Be responsible for proactive measures in response to emergency safety and liberty issues.
• Demonstrate cost-consciousness in the application of available resources.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Social Worker 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.