Designated Social Care Officer

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Designated Social Care Officer to work full time based in Haringey.
The salary for this permanent Designated Social Care Officer job is up to £49,890 per annum.

Main duties:

• An operational and strategic role accountable for developing strategies, action plans, and processes which support and enable the SEND reforms agenda to become embedded within social care operations and practice.
• Establishing and leading a network of social care SEND ‘champions’ and link workers across Children’s Social Care. Facilitating and overseeing the implementation of the SEND agenda within social care through this network and gathering insight and intelligence from them and other groups such as the parent carer forum to inform future planning.
• Understanding complex and varied work stands across functions, services, and agencies in order to identify and develop opportunities for co-production and integrated working between social care, health, and education to progress SEND reforms agenda.
• Working collaboratively with a range of departments to ensure social care meets statutory responsibilities under the Children & Families Act and Care Act, and to drive forward organisational culture change aligned to the SEND reforms.
• To attend as the Social Care lead the weekly SEN Panel and to ensure Social Care actions are communicated and followed up from the Panel, as well as wider learning from the Panel helping to impact practice.
• Constructively challenging practice, systems, processes, and protocols to enhance SEND reform compliance as part of this collaboration.
• Working collaboratively to help frame the social care elements of the local authority’s self-evaluation process to ensure readiness for SEND Ofsted & Children’s Social Care Ofsted inspections.
• Involvement in and initiation of varied multi-stakeholder projects and work streams. Themes include participation and engagement, person-centred approaches, joint working initiatives, outcomes frameworks, operational function design, IT systems connectivity, EHC processes, quality assurance, joint commissioning, Early Years, Preparing for Adulthood, the Local Offer.
• Contributing to social care workforce development by formulating a programme of blended learning/training relating to the SEND reforms across varied audience profiles and functions.
• The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job profile are indicative of the role; however, they are not exhaustive and may be subject to change. In addition, you will be required to undertake other reasonable duties as directed by your manager.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Designated Social Care Officer 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 role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well as 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.