Social Worker, MASH Team

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the MASH Team to work full time based in Cardiff.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £50,091 per annum.

Main duties:

• To review and update knowledge of legal, policy and procedural frameworks and demonstrate professional competence in social work practice as laid down in the Code of Practice for Social Workers.
• To assess needs, risks and options, taking into account legal and other requirements, including child protection and protection of vulnerable adults.
• To assess, identify, plan, implement and review the circumstances of individuals and their families and the need for procedural and legal intervention to meet their immediate needs.
• To manage and prioritise the workload, carry out duties using accountable professional judgement.
• To work independently of direct support e.g. decision-making regarding contacts to the service in terms of eligibility, effective risk management of own workload and priority of work, giving telephone advice to members of the public whom contact the service using own knowledge and initiative as appropriate.
• To undertake complex or high-risk strategy discissions with partner agencies in a timely manner to ensure those at risk are identified and safeguarded.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work, using professional and managerial supervision and support to improve practice.
• To contribute to the identification and agreement of outcomes required of the service.
• To work in multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational teams and contribute to policy review and development of best practice.
• To work with colleagues to agree a team approach to service demands.
• To participate in duty rotas as appropriate.
• To record unmet or inappropriately met needs in line with council policy and procedure.
• To participate in supervision, appraisal and team meetings, identifying issues and possible solutions where discussion and decision required.
• To record and share client data in line with council policy and procedure.
• To use corporate systems to support core business and care management process.
• To support the Team Manager in the identification of trends on unmet or inappropriately met needs.
• To contribute to team meetings, service development days and training as appropriate.
• To work with the Team Manager to ensure team and staff training needs are reviewed annually and contribute to the development of the Service Training Plan.
• To assist in identifying precise service needs to contribute to the annual service planning and commissioning process.
• As term of your employment you may be required to undertake such other duties and/or times of work as may reasonably be required of you, commensurate with your grade or general level od responsibility within the organisation.

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 Charlie Reeve; 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 'Best Candidate Care' 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 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.