Social work
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Our recruitment experience in social work

Build your social work team with fully compliant permanent, interim and temporary candidates, leveraging our national networks and local expertise. 

To safeguard communities and provide the highest level of care, organisations require trusted, high-quality professionals with the right skills. Whether you want to find and engage locum social workers or hire on a permanent basis, we’re your social care leadership partner. 

In response to rising national skills shortages in high profile talent areas of council operations - such as qualified social workers – we've developed specific approaches for each skillset, engaging and evolving constantly to meet and exceed performance targets in worker quality, cost, hire time, retention and satisfaction. In such a highly regulated sector, you can trust our comprehensive compliance checks and candidate screening are second to none. 

As your leadership partner, we can help define your business strategies, improve onboarding processes and increase retention of new social work talent. Our managed service programmes (MSPs) embody this, affording your organisaiton the talent strategy it needs to remain agile and mitigate future risk.   

We’ve built close partnerships with our clients – such as Birmingham City Council and Southend City Council - understanding their specific care needs to deliver differentiated temp and perm recruitment. 

Whether you’re looking to diversify your hiring, fill unexpected vacancies, or deliver new care services, we offer end-to-end social work talent solutions designed to add value to your service provisions. 

Get in contact with one of our specialist consultants today.

 

Our social work fields 

The qualified social work professionals we provide cover a range of levels, from frontline staff through to senior level appointments across both adult and children services. 

We hire a variety of children's social workers (all Grades) including Looked after children, CAMHS, Fostering and Children in need. 

Some of the adult social worker positions we provide include AMHP, team leaders and team managers, senior practitioners, occupational therapists, best interest assessors and DoLs. 

We partner with public sector organisations to deliver fully compliant social work professionals - combining national scale with local insight to meet complex care demands.

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"Hays recognised that different parts of our organisation – including wholly owned subsidiaries – have unique and evolving needs, governance structures, and levels of agility. They adapted their processes, developed dedicated microsites, and structured their supply chain to not only meet but exceed the expectations of each service area.

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