About the Role:
This role is responsible for ensuring high-quality social work practice and the effective management of risk and need. The postholder will deliver professional, high-standard social work services to children, families, foster carers, and adopters in line with current legislation, statutory guidance, and local policies and procedures. A key aspect of the role involves working collaboratively with stakeholders to assess and plan for both present and future risks, drawing on the experiences and voices of children, families, and carers to inform care planning.
This work is underpinned by current practice knowledge, research, and relevant theoretical frameworks. The postholder will also play a significant role in shaping and supporting the continued development and implementation of high-quality social work within the service.
37 hours per week
 Key Responsibilities:
- Provide a professional social work service to children in need, in need of protection, children in care and their families/carers in accordance with the principles of the Children Act.
- To provide specialist and expert advice in the context of particularly complex or challenging social care cases.
- To personally manage a complex and diverse caseload, ensuring children, families and/or carers receive support to meet their assessed needs.
- Lead and undertake assessments or interventions in complex and/or contentious cases.
- Work directly with challenging children, young people and vulnerable service users employing a wide range of social work knowledge, skills, methods and techniques
- Process referrals and complete assessments in accordance with statutory requirements and departmental policies.
- Contribute to the preparation and implementations of plans for children in need, child in need of protection, children in care, foster carers, adopters and family support)
- Work effectively and co-operatively within a professional, family, foster carer network established in respect of individual children, families and carers.
- Attend, and where required lead, child protection conferences, statutory reviews, core groups, fostering panel, adoption panel, disruption meetings, departmental meetings and verbally contribute in a professional manner to the course of the proceedings.
- Work in partnership with children, families and carers in a variety of settings such as the office, home environment and any other suitable settings for social work practice.
 Requirements:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Significant post qualifying experience in a Social Work setting with children and families
- Experience of undertaking research and producing reports and recommendations
- Proven commitment to and experience in implementing Equal Opportunities as a provider of services to the public
- Registered with Social Work England
- Eligible to work in the UK
 Interested?
For more information on this role or to apply, get in touch with our vendor department who will arrange for a specialist consultant to get in contact with you:
 0203 906 8670