Social Worker – SASH Team – Apsley

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

The salary for this permanent Social Worker  job is up to £37,261 per annum.

Main duties:

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of disabled children/young people and support their families and carers by working with cases appropriate to your assessed experience, skills and knowledge.
• To assess the needs and circumstances.
• To plan, carry out, review and evaluate social work practice with them and other professionals.
• To support them, to represent their needs, views and circumstances.
• To manage risk to children, young people, families, carers, self and others.
• To manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.
• To assist and provide advice to families and carers.
• To maintain accurate and up to date knowledge of skills and resources by training and supervision.
• To advise management of the needs and resources within the community.
• To keep accurate and up to date records.
• To demonstrate professional competence in social work practice by using current knowledge and working within agreed standards of best social work practice and carrying out duties in accordance with the HCPC codes of practice.
• Contribute to/undertake the assessment and supervision of students, support new staff by coaching and taking part in joint work with less experienced staff to support them in their casework.
• To work closely with other agencies within the community, both statutory and voluntary, in support of preventative strategies.
• To maintain County Policies on Equal Opportunities and Anti-Racism.
• To carry out other duties as defined by the Director of Children’s Services.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

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.