Southend City Council has fantastic opportunities in their Prevention Team who are currently expanding their service and looking for a Senior Social Worker to join their teams on a full time permanent basis. There has never been a better time to join our team and participate in growing our service to be innovative, creative and providing high quality support to people when they need it most. The main aim of the team is to use a strengths-based approach to enable people to live safely in the community, maximising their abilities to care for themselves and to support carers to continue in their caring role as long as they are able to. The team works creatively with people and their carers to empower them and identify individual and community based assets.
You will work within the relevant legal frameworks, guidance, policies, and procedures to undertake assessments, reviews and support planning with individuals and their carer's, promoting well-being, independence and safety. You will also undertake Safeguarding processes. You will be registered with Social Work England.
Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.