Social Worker – Leaving Care

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £46,406.00 annum.

Main Duties:

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of children in line with the Children Acts 1989 and 2004, Children and Families Act 2014, and working Together to Safeguard Children guidance 2013, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.
• To carry a caseload and be responsible for assessment and planning for children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards.
• To undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
• To work to a range of legal options to support investigation and protection and accommodation; if required to give evidence in court; using contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances.
• To undertake pathway planning in line with statutory guidance and ensure that all young people are collaborated with around their pathway plans.
• To ensure that for those young people who are unaccompanied asylum seeking children that assessments are plans are sensitive to the individual needs of the child/young person. You will be responsible for Human Rights and age assessments.
• To ensure that care leavers have access to health, education, employment, accommodation and health relationships.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.