About the Role:
The Advanced Social Worker role within the Family Intervention Team at Flintshire County Council is to provide a comprehensive social work service in a variety of settings within a framework of relevant legislation and procedures, supporting children, young people, families and groups within the community. Social Workers will take responsibility for a caseload according to qualifications and experience.
Contracted Hours: 37 hours per week (Full-Time)
 Key Responsibilities:
- To form, develop and maintain professional relationships with children and young people and their families through direct casework, supervision, shared activity and counselling, in such a way that the child/young person’s and family’s needs are met
- To provide a service which meets primary needs, promotes development, and assists behavioural difficulties and vulnerabilities
- To identify and assess risk of abuse, failure to protect, or harm to children
- To advise senior managers of any concerns in respect of children or young people, particularly those at risk of abuse or harm
- To identify, contribute to and suggest ideas for good practice and its development, and to take a lead in a special area of responsibility
- To value, recognise and respect the diversity, expertise and experience of individuals, families and carers and enable them to make informed decisions and express their needs
- To challenge discrimination, disadvantage and other forms of inequality, injustice and oppressive practice
- To maximise the financial and material resources available to service users and carers from all possible sources and ensure value for money care packages
- To ensure that service users and carers are aware of the Department’s Complaints procedures
- To case manage child protection work
- To understand the changing culture, health and social needs of the locality to inform current and future practice and service provision
- To establish good practice by example
- To provide verbal and written information to aid care planning activities and to provide evidence for assessment of need and care plan approaches
- To implement designated actions from care plans
- To gather and interpret information on agreed criteria related to the care of a client or implementation of procedures
- To lead meetings to define care planning activities and to evaluate evidence for assessment of need and care plan approaches
- To set up mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating delegated actions from care plans
- To derive and interpret information related to the care of a service user or implementation of procedures
- To communicate effectively and in the best interests of the client in case conferences, planning meetings, discussions with clients or families, inter-agency personnel, team members and in staff supervision
- If required, to give evidence in court in relation to care
- To work within established protocols and negotiate expectations or roles in liaison with others, for example in the key worker role or in multi-agency working
- To represent the team as required on behalf of a service user, including representing individuals and the department or team in meetings or conferences
- To attend child protection meetings
- To appropriately challenge the judgements and decisions of others where there is evidence that the needs of those you are working with are not being met
 Requirements:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Registered with Social Care Wales
- Enhanced DBS
- 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