About the Role:
This Experienced Social Worker role is based in the Kinship Assessment Team, Exeter.
Contracted Hours – 37 hours per week (Full-Time)
Key Responsibilities:
- Use and model a restorative practice approach to build and maintain healthy relationships, and bring about change with and alongside people rather than doing things to or for them
- Identify community and other natural sources of support, maximising strengths within families and communities using preventative and universal services
- Confidently undertake interviews, observations, and gather information from children, families, and other agencies to analyse, summarise, and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of a child’s needs, balancing risk and protective factors
- Produce focused, outcomes-based, and purposeful care plans for interventions within the context of managing the needs of and risk to children
- Understand theories of child development, parenting capacity, and family and environmental factors, and use evidence-based practice to establish the needs of individual children
- Be responsible for investigations into cases where children have suffered or are likely to suffer significant harm, and provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative, and based on analysis of complex evidence
- On the basis of assessed needs and risks, work with families to devise, implement, and review care plans, including the development and management of child protection plans in line with child protection procedures
- Be knowledgeable about and enable families to access a range of appropriate services and interventions to meet the needs of children, their families, and carers by assessing, arranging, coordinating, and monitoring provision within delegated levels of responsibility and in accordance with required local and national policies, procedures, standards, and legislation
- Take a leading part in decision-making about the appropriate use of legal proceedings to protect and care for a child or young person, and where such procedures are instigated, prepare the required documentation
- Attend court as directed, present evidence, and represent Devon County Council in court to inform decisions about the child or young person’s future
- Chair multi-agency meetings (e.g. Children in Need, Core Group), determine plans from meetings, and make recommendations to the relevant manager
Requirements:
- Qualified Social Work
- 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