Senior Qualified Social Worker

Senior Qualified Social Worker
Working Age Mental Health Service
Location: South East
Pay: £35 per hour plus £150 per week allowance

Are you an experienced and passionate Qualified Social Worker looking for a new opportunity within a dedicated  Working Age Mental Health Service.As part of this Working Age Mental Health team in this service in the southeast you will have a passion for making a difference.  This is an exciting opportunity to join our clients Working Age Mental Health Service in the south East.  You will be supported by an experienced manager.  Our client has a strong and positive culture in this South East local authority, which we would love you to be a part of, offering regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision.

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Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible
Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Have care proceedings experience.
• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis
• 4 Years plus Qualified

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
• Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from London, Watford, Maidstone, Margate, Canterbury, Dover, Folkstone, Hastings, Eastbourne, Winchester, Chelmsford. Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Chichester, Bogna Regis, Fareham, Havant, Brighton, Worthing, Crawley, Horsham,  Tonbridge
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including Youth Justice  Prevention Officer,  IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.