Adults Social Worker, Safeguarding Team, London

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

The salary for this Adult Social Worker job is up to£54,056 per annum.

Main duties:

• Undertake complex, holistic-centred assessments, care and support planning and reviews of people and carers with a range of complex needs, working an integrated team using a multi-disciplinary framework.
• Expert understanding of the legal social care framework and all relevant policies and procedures.
• Provide a person-centred service which enables people to optimise and maximise their abilities, by utilising a strengths-based model and whole family approach to all interventions.
• To pro-actively support and work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure people receive the required health and social care support within the community, are discharged from hospital within agreed timeframes with appropriate support mechanisms in place, prevent hospital admission and proactively work with the principles of admission avoidance.
• Develop and maintain high professional standards, within your role and service and promote integrated working methods within the service.
• Take the lead in representing your team in working groups to develop service and practice improvements.
• Actively contribute to maintaining quality standards and ensure self and staff development is maintained.
• Manage, plan, prioritise and progress cases of high complexity, seeking support and suggesting resolutions for workload difficulties with due regard to service standards, targets and timescales.
• Lead and actively promote effective communication within the team and with colleagues internal and external of the organisation.
• Produce excellent written and verbal evidence-based reports which are concise, informative and appropriate for organisational requirements.
• Promote and implement social care principles and practices within an integrated setting with health, providing highly skilled professional guidance on the application of social care legislation.
• Chair meetings and case conferences and multi-disciplinary meetings as required.
• To demonstrate a flexible approach in the delivery of work within the service area. Consequently, you may be required to perform duties not specifically identified the job profile but which are in line with the general responsibilities of the post.

Requirements of this Adult Social Worker:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Adult 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'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.