Job Description

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Permanence (CIC) Team to work full time based in Gloucestershire.The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to xc2xa358,248 per annum.Main duties:

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions and provide practice guidance, making use of legislation, national guidelines and research to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
• Support all members of the team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual and team basis to ensure an informed and professional approach to service delivery and an awareness of the changing national and local demands and priorities by the implementation of appropriate performance review mechanisms.
• Promote evidence-based practice in the team and to manage, monitor and ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• Setting of Team/Service objectives and targets linked too national & local performance indicators, legislation and guidance including the provision of regular and reliable management information and its analysis to inform the continuous improvement to safeguarding services.
• To conduct annual appraisals of all staff supervised and to identify individual and team staff development needs.
• To chair and attend complex strategy meetings and support staff to prepare for multi-agency meetings and evidence giving at Court.
• To allocate and provide detailed management oversight on new or transferred referrals. This will include tracking the progress of interim safeguarding plans, conducting audits and preparing files for case transfer.
• To demonstrate awareness of best value and opportunity cost implications of all decisions and actions in relation to individual cases supervised within the team.
• To develop effective working partnerships across the council and with key strategic partners.
• To develop a practice, focus and a high level of awareness in listening actively to children, parents, carers, and the community.
• To maintain accurate records in line with Departmental policy.
• To be responsible for personal and professional development and seeking evidence of good practice.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Past Management Experienced.
• Extensive Experience Working in a Statutory Social Care Setting with Children & Families.

Contact:This Senior 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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 xe2x80x98Best Candidate Carexe2x80x99 at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection pr

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