About the Role:
This Experienced Social Worker role is based in the South team and is focused on supporting children, young people, and their families to achieve lasting safety, stability, and well-being. The role offers a valuable opportunity to build meaningful and positive relationships with children and families, working collaboratively to secure outcomes that are family-led and strengths-based.
Social workers in this position are expected to be available to manage their caseloads and visit children as needed to meet service demands. While there will be opportunities to work from home, the nature of the role requires flexibility and responsiveness to attend in-person when required. The successful candidate will work in close partnership with families to develop effective plans that support children throughout their childhood and beyond, ensuring their safety and promoting long-term positive change.
An agreed weekly agency accommodation/commuter travel allowance of up to ÂŁ150 per week is offered for those living 50 miles or more from their work base – claims must be recorded with detailed receipts provided to support the claims made.
 Key Responsibilities:
- To safeguard children and young people and adults at risk.
- To take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive, and support others to adopt that approach.
- To gather information from service users, informal networks and other agencies to analyse, summarise and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of needs, balancing risk and protective factors.
- To formulate and produce outcome-focused plans with clear aim and objectives, and support others to do so.
- To maintain case records, keeping them up to date and to provide concise and accurate information about a service user’s circumstances and plans. Make use of IT systems provided by the Service, complying with policy and procedures.
- To manage a workload of complex cases and organise work activities; taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, working to timescales and meeting national and local performance expectations.
- To develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team, wider service area and partner agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
- To ensure that all necessary communications and referrals are made to relevant agencies, working together with them to promote the wellbeing of children, young people and/or adults at risk and best outcomes for them.
- To convene and chair multi-disciplinary meetings including those where a degree of challenge or conflict is expected; or where the meeting may contribute to the evidence which will support legal proceedings.
- To share information with other agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults at risk
 Requirements:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Experience and ability to demonstrate working as a registered social worker in line with the “Social Worker” level in the PCF
- Knowledge of and understanding of legislative frameworks, related to social work in either children’s or adult services
- 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