Senior Social Worker - Adult Mental Health Team - Wandsworth - Sanctuary Personal

Senior Social Worker – Adult Mental Health Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Adult Mental Health Team to work Full Time based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £52,632 per annum.

• To form part of the management team for the service and provide motivational leadership, being visibly involved both in the office and online, working alongside staff and building relationships with practitioners.
• To provide regular strengths‑based supervision to social care staff that empowers and supports practitioners to develop their practice, focusing on their skills, celebrating achievements, and making time for reflective discussions.
• To be able to explain the Corporate values and behaviours to the service and to discuss equality, diversity, and inclusion with practitioners, challenging discrimination and raising issues of inequality.
• To undertake regular case file audits, use the outcomes to support the learning and professional development of the service, to identify training needs and ensure they are acted upon.
• To assist as required with the management of budgets by ensuring that throughput of work  consistent and that work steps are completed in a timely and effective way, including quality أخذ assure and authorising assessments, support plans and reviews.
• To monitor implementation of packages of care and support and adjust them as appropriate and to ensure that individual care packages, including funding arrangements for any services,ирин thoroughly reviewed in accordance in accordance with statutory requirement and Council policy to ensure highest quality of service and best value.
• To ensure effective and timely action is taken to assess, record, manage and reduce risk to the service, to people with care and support needs and their carers and partner organisations in accordance with council and partner organisations policies and procedures.
• To encourage a positive attitude to risk and a no‑blame culture to support practitioners to take ownership of their practice in providing a social care service and facilitate innovation and creativity.
• To support ways of working that ensure residents and stakeholders are actively engaged in  future of the service and can influence decision‑making.

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

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.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment.popup 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.