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Job Title: Experienced Social Worker

Specialism: Safeguarding Early Response Team

Job Location: Worcester, UK

Salary: £31.27 Hourly

Salary Type: Ongoing

Grab this thrilling opportunity to join the Safeguarding Early Response Team in Worcester as an Experienced Social Worker. Offering a competitive hourly rate of £31.27, this full-time role (37 hours per week, 09:00 to 17:00) promises both rewarding work and a chance to make a real difference in your community. This position is inside IR35, ensuring the reliability of an ongoing income stream. As you step into this dynamic world of Social Care – Qualified, become a valued asset to Worcestershire County Council.

Perks and benefits:

• Enjoy the flexibility and variety provided by this locum position – perfect for those who crave change and thrive in dynamic work environments.
• Benefit from a supportive team that encourages professional growth and makes sure you never feel alone on your journey.
• With opportunities to enhance your skills through various training programmes, this role is set to elevate your career.
• Additionally, take advantage of a comprehensive employee assistance programme, offering support across personal and professional challenges.

What you will do:

• Rapidly assess and respond to cases, ensuring the safety and well-being of children and families.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency professionals to deliver effective safeguarding interventions.
• Maintain accurate case records and prepare detailed reports for assessments and court proceedings.
• Offer guidance and support to families experiencing crisis, promoting their welfare and development.
• Liaise with service users and their families, fostering trust and building effective communication channels.
• Participate in reflective supervision, contributing to the continuous improvement of social work practice.

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SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST - Join to apply for the SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST role at State of Florida

Requisition No: Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST

Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number:

Salary: $53,000 - $58,000 annually

Posting Closing Date: 02/28/

This is a professional position in the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). This position will report directly to the WIC Director.

Licensure as a Dietitian in the State of Florida is required for this position.

1. Provide nutrition assessment including the gathering of anthropometric and hematological data.
2. Provide nutrition and breastfeeding counseling to clients.
3. Assist and guide clerical and technical support staff of the WIC program.
4. Assist in the development of Walton County WIC nutrition education materials.
5. Perform duties at the main clinic site or any WIC satellite clinic.
6. Demonstrate good communication skills and professional ability to work as a team and independently.
7. Support and promote excellent customer service.
8. Ensure compliance with all standards and regulations.
9. Certify participants for WIC in accordance with federal and state guidelines.
10. Provide appropriate WIC food packages to clients based on assessed information.
11. Document all utilizing the SOAP method of Problem Oriented Recording in Florida WiSE.
12. Provide professional nutrition counseling and follow-up to clients.
13. Participate in VENA principles.
14. Promote breastfeeding as the normal method of infant feeding.
15. Provide basic breastfeeding information and assist in teaching clients.
16. Document all activities appropriately in the FL WiSE System.
17. Obtain anthropometric and hematological data.
18. Check client's immunization status in FL Shots.
19. Participate in monitoring QI/QA activities.
20. Act as a role model to co-workers.
21. Help train new staff.
22. Attend meetings and participate in Walton CHD committees.
23. Perform other duties as assigned.

1. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
2. Ability to prioritize duties effectively.
3. Ability to take accurate height/length and weight measurements.
4. Knowledge of nutritional needs of pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women; infants; and children under 5.
5. Basic computer skills; operate within FL WiSE.
6. Ability to work with diverse ethnic backgrounds.
7. Ability to counsel clients and conduct group education classes.
8. Provide excellent customer service.
9. Ability to lift and maneuver lab equipment and supplies.

Licensure as a Dietitian in the State of Florida; eligible for License as a Dietitian in the State of Florida. Valid Driver's License. Preferred CLC License Within Two Years Of Position. Preferred to possess bilingual interpretation skills.

All fields in the Candidate Profile must be completed. Work history, duties and responsibilities, hours worked, supervisor, and formal education fields must be filled out. The successful candidate must pass a Level II Background screening.

For more information, please visit the SSS website.

The Florida Department of Health is committed to serving members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans, and their families.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Employer.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation must notify the agency hiring authority.

Duration: Immediate until 30th of November 2024

Reporting to: Out of School Manager

Centre for Community Impact (CCI) is a non-profit South African organisation based in Pretoria. We aim to be a centre of excellence in strategic health and development communication programs that are centred around meaningful Community Engagement.

Effective oversight of safe space operations and primary supervision of community teams. Provision of Professional Counselling Services to all programme beneficiaries.

1. Provide Leadership and supportive supervision to community team to ensure that they fulfil their daily duties.
2. Oversee Safe Space operations and rollout of daily activities.
3. Develop a daily schedule of Safe Space activities.
4. Screen, identify and provide guidance and counselling to in and out of School AYPs experiencing psychosocial challenges.
5. Attend and participate in various local stakeholders’ meetings.
6. Provide orientation training to Community team i.e. SAWs, PGTs and ACs, CYCWs, CCGs, MFs, AO, SO, HK, AMBs.
7. Consolidate Monthly and Quarterly Community Component Reports from teams.

1. An appropriate 4-year Bachelor Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification as recognized by SAQA.
2. Current registration with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP).
3. Minimum of 5 years appropriate / recognizable experience in social work involving case management after registration as a Social Worker with SACSSP.
4. At least 3 years’ experience working with Adolescents and Youth programs.
5. Good writing skills that will enable the incumbent to compile reports.
6. Good communication, listening and problem-solving skills.
7. Computer literate in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
8. Ability to work individually and as a team.
9. Knowledge and understanding of human behaviour, social systems, and skills to intervene at a point where people interact with their environment to promote their well-being.
10. People Management and empowerment skills.
11. Information and knowledge management skills.
12. Knowledge of programme and project management skills.

1. Interested candidates should submit an updated CV to CCI Human Resources at
2. Please use the job title “Social Worker – Bojanala” as the subject line for your application.
3. Only email submissions will be accepted or considered.
4. The closing date for applications is the 10th of August 2024.
5. Late applications will NOT be accepted or considered.

As a Registered Social Worker, you will deliver high quality, safe care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice, which comply with Social Work England Code of Practice. The post holder will co-ordinate, negotiate and manage the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit’s compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation. Taking appropriate action to maintain a humanistic and compassionate ethos whilst working with complex situations of social need and risk, including balancing competing views and rights. The role includes working with the Multi-disciplinary team to deliver person centred care in a collaborative way focusing on personalisation and recovery and supporting individuals to make positive, self-directed change. Responsibilities To provide expertise and leadership in Safeguarding. To bring clear focus on the rights of all service users and their families, including the ability to investigate, evaluate and learn from allegations to improve safety, dignity and compassion within the unit. To work as part of the Multi- disciplinary Team focusing on prevention, early intervention, building resilience and selfcare, reducing and delaying dependency. To undertake assessments, care plans and where required Tribunal Report to determine eligibility and support the access to services under relevant social care framework. Within assessments and interventions, identify and address social exclusions, its causes and effects on mental wellbeing and mental health. To work with service users to resolve their own problems and make their own sustainable support arrangements, which might include social care and health resources. To work in partnership with service users wherever possible. Shifting from the professional being ‘on top’ to ‘on tap’ a resource and collaborator not a controller. To promote empowerment, equality and social inclusion. To promote a social model with a bio /psycho /social holistic approach to care planning and recovery. To work alongside the service user and their carers supporting them with issues including housing, employment and finances. Striving to support social inclusion. Enable service users, as far as possible to be fully involved in their care and treatment. To support them to contribute to the design and delivery of future services taking in to account ‘no decision about me without me’ intentions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. To work with service users to support their discharge in terms of planning, aftercare and community support as required. To promote carers’ rights and access to assessments and resources Where required be involved in statutory community and multiagency partnership forums (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements MAPPA and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference Knowledge / Education / Skills A REAL AND LASTING DIFFERENCE FOR EVERYONE WE SUPPORT Degree level Social Work qualification Registration with Social Work England Detailed knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Legislation and framework including the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding Legislation including The Care Act 2014 Have the skills and knowledge about multidisciplinary recovery-focused practice, emphasising hope, control and opportunity. Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the theories and models for social work intervention with individuals and their families. Make use of evidence from research and engage in evidence informed practice to support effective care and work with the individual to support their best interests. Be able to gather information quickly and effectively to inform judgement for interventions. Model and encourage positive working relationships in the team, promoting strategies for collaborations and a supportive team culture. Promote and advance, wherever possible individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination. Demonstrate ability to interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and /or advance people’s rights and entitlement, balancing the use of different legislation to achieve the best outcomes. Demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and guidance. Apply legal reasoning, using professional legal expertise and advice appropriately. Be able to provide a professional opinion, giving rationale and knowledge base. Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities. Maintain and develop liaison across agencies. Model and demonstrate the ability to work within own unit and work with relationships between units and external organisations. Demonstrate confident application of understanding of the benefits and limitations of partnership work and support others to do so. Demonstrate and model the effective and positive use of power and authority, whilst recognising and providing guidance to others as to how it may be used oppressively. Recognise the short and long-term impact of psychological, socio- economic, environmental and physiological factors on people’s lives. Model critical reflection; be able to demonstrate the ability to examine your approach, judgements, decisions and interventions. Be able to provide objective support, free from your own values, views and beliefs. Creatively combine ‘thinking, doing and being’ when working with individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations. Anticipate, assess and manage risk, including in more complex cases and support others to develop risk management skills. Model and help others to maintain professional / personal boundaries and skilled use of self.

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sector:

sub-sector: Community

type: Temporary

location: North West

Are you a qualified Children’s Social Worker looking for flexible temporary work?

Sensible Staffing is currently recruiting Children’s Social Workers to join teams across various service areas, including:

Safeguarding
Child Protection
Fostering
Family Support & Social Services
Adoption

We welcome applications from social workers with experience in at least one of these areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct assessments and care planning to safeguard and support children and families.
• Work closely with children at risk, ensuring their safety and well-being .
• Support foster carers, adoptive parents, and families in need of intervention.
• Provide direct support and advocacy for children and young people.
• Collaborate with multi-agency teams , including education, health, and legal services.
• Maintain accurate case records and contribute to service improvements.

Requirements:

Degree in Social Work (or equivalent qualification).
Registered with Social Work England (or relevant body) .
Experience in at least one of the following areas: Safeguarding, Child Protection, Fostering, Family Support, or Adoption .
Strong understanding of relevant legislation (Children Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children, Care Planning Regulations).
Ability to work independently and within a team .
A compassionate and proactive approach to working with children and families.

Why Work with Sensible Staffing?

Competitive pay rates and flexible working arrangements.
Opportunities to gain experience across multiple children’s services .
Ongoing support from a dedicated recruitment consultant.
Access to exclusive job opportunities across local authorities and children’s trusts.

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Are you a qualified Adult Social Worker looking for temporary work?

Sensible Staffing is currently recruiting Adult Social Workers to join teams across various service areas, including:
Learning Disabilities
Safeguarding
Mental Health
Forensic Social Work
Intervention & Crisis Support

Key Responsibilities:

Conduct assessments and care planning to support adults with a range of needs.

Provide safeguarding support , managing risk and ensuring compliance with legal frameworks.

Work with individuals to promote independence, well-being, and positive outcomes .

Collaborate with multi-agency teams , including health professionals, housing, and legal services.

Maintain accurate case records and contribute to service improvements.

Requirements:

Degree in Social Work (or equivalent qualification).
Registered with Social Work England (or relevant body) .
Experience in at least one of the following areas: Learning Disabilities, Safeguarding, Mental Health, Forensic, or Crisis Intervention .
Strong understanding of relevant legislation (Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act).
Ability to work independently and within a team .
A flexible and proactive approach to work.

Why Work with Sensible Staffing?

Competitive pay rates and flexible working arrangements.
Opportunities to gain experience across multiple specialisms .
Ongoing support from a dedicated recruitment consultant.
Access to exclusive job opportunities across local authorities and NHS trusts.

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Retina South Africa is a patient run organization dedicated to assisting South Africans affected by retinal degenerative conditions such as Macular Degenerations and Dystrophies, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Usher Syndrome, Stargardt Dystrophy and other allied retinal conditions. Retina South Africa is a registered Non- Profit Organization with Section a and BEE certification. The National Head office is situated in Germiston with branches in most of the major centers in South Africa.

Retisa seeks to appoint a temporary Social Worker.

• Social Worker required for a 3 month temporary position.
• Must be a qualified social worker with at least 3 years experience.
• Must be registered with the SACSSP.
• Must have a valid drivers license and must be a competent driver.
• Must have report writing skills and must be well versed with the writing of DSD monthly reports.

Flexible Locum Social Worker Position – Make a Meaningful Impact on Your Terms

Empowered to Thrive , a dynamic private practice based at Faircape Health Tokai Estate , is seeking a skilled Locum/Part-Time Social Worker to join our team. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced professional who is passionate about holistic, patient-centered care and values the flexibility to shape their own schedule.

At Empowered to Thrive , we support individuals navigating complex medical recoveries—including Neurological, Orthopedic, Surgical, and Respite care —by offering critical psychosocial services that promote well-being and safe discharge planning. Our social workers play a vital role in supporting patients and families through counseling, mediation, case coordination, and stress-reducing interventions to ensure optimal engagement in the rehabilitation journey.

• Flexibility and Autonomy : Set your own hours within a supportive structure—ideally available Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at Tokai Estate, with potential for outpatient travel.
• Competitive Compensation : Earn 60% of all services rendered , with administrative support for authorizations and payment collection .
• Professional Support : Be part of an interdisciplinary team where your expertise is respected and your contributions make a real difference.

Responsibilities:

• Assess Care needs
• Assist families to implement recommended care to ensure safe discharges are in place.
• Connect patients to relevant resources such as care agencies, frail cares, day clinics, palliative care resources etc.
• Make referrals to appropriate service providers such as psychologists, Department of Social Development etc.
• Provide short term counseling
• Provide mediation to patients and families
• Provide practical assistance to patients to reduce stressors in order to participate in their rehabilitation.

• SACSSP Registration (current and valid)
• Professional Indemnity Insurance
• Training and experience in Palliative Care (essential)
• Additional experience in Oncology , Curatorship , or Geriatric/Frail Care (advantageous)
• Proven ability in Hospital Social Work and Case Management
• Strong report writing and time management skills
• Comfortable working flexible hours within normal business times
• Willingness to travel for outpatient consultations
• Ability to collaborate effectively with an interdisciplinary care team

If you are a compassionate, driven social worker seeking a flexible role that values your clinical expertise , we invite you to apply and help empower patients to thrive.

Lead Social Worker | Up to £45000 per annum + Great benefits

sector: Nursing & Care

sub-sector:

type: Permanent

location: North West

Main Purpose

Over-sees and leads all Social Worker activity, Co-ordinates, negotiates and manages the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit’s compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation; taking appropriate action to preserve the psycho-social and socio-economic circumstance of assigned clients attending Priory units; needs assessments of clients and their families and identification of relevant resources pre and post discharge.

Key Accountabilities

1. To conduct a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the client’s current status, environment and functional abilities, including risk assessment of clients, staff and the wider community.

2. Manages, monitors and reviews an assigned caseload ascertaining the socio-economic circumstances of clients, ensuring that the relevant people are made aware of the clients situation. Maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patient’s rehabilitation / progress.

3. To take the lead on POVA or Child Protection issues and take appropriate action with those statutory services. To apply working knowledge of statutory and company policies and procedures to set a strategy for protecting potentially vulnerable clients.

4. Assists and supports colleagues and relatives in understanding and interpreting changes in legislation and statutory regulations.

5. To collaborate and to act as main contact between relatives, agencies and other official organisations co-ordinating negotiations and communications regarding admissions, discharges and long-term needs.

6. To co-ordinate health, rehabilitation, social service, medico-legal and voluntary agencies to ensure an individually tailored programme is provided for each client, to establish the necessary level of care and to liaise with external agencies to help obtain the funding and services necessary to meet ongoing needs.

7. Responsible for the supervision and practice teaching of students and trainees assigned to the unit.