Social Worker - Fostering Recruitment & Assessment
Location
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim Social Worker - Fostering Recruitment & Assessment
Reference no: CCC (HQ) CCC16764
Pay rate: £26.92 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: HUNTINGDON, Cambridgeshire
Hybrid working, 2 days office/3 days home – negotiable
Enhanced DBS required for this role
A Social Worker is required in the Fostering Recruitment & Assessment Team to undertake kinship assessments including connected persons fostering assessments and SG assessments, complete SG support plans, and undertake Private fostering assessments. Fostering experience is essential for this role.
Key responsibilities:
Provide professional leadership, specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations, in which risk of significant harm, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
Through the intervention of assessment, identify and respond to needs, build on strengths, ensuring that analysis is robust and leads to clear outcomes that can be met through appropriate SMART plans.
Demonstrate good analytical, interviewing and observational skills, to ensure the voice of the child is heard and is used to inform all assessments, decision making and interventions.
Using practice methods, engage with children, young people, and their families to develop effective and empowering working relationships which facilitate change and improve outcomes for children and young people.
Ensure legislation and statutory guidance is adhered to and challenge decisions where appropriate.
Act as the lead professional and ensure all matters in respect of safeguarding are dealt with promptly, effectively and in line with child protection procedures and escalated as necessary.
Demonstrate sound written skills through the provision of coherent, analytical and evidence-based reports and plans for a variety of forums, including court, which are child focussed and reflect the impact of the child’s lived experience.
Work in partnership with children, young people and their families to ensure that all interventions are proportionate and timely, that people are protected from harm, and that their human rights are promoted.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via
[email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Recognised professional Social Work qualification (Degree/Masters/Post Graduate Diploma/Social Work fast track qualifying programme).
Current Social Work England registration.
Car driver with full UK licence. Ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide.
Experience:
Fostering experience essential.
Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing effective social work interventions in partnership with children and families.
Experience of recording, summarising, analysing and evaluating complex information.
Experience of social work with children and families, building effective helping relationships and overcoming challenges in doing so.
Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team or alongside multi-agency colleagues.
Knowledge:
Proven knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors.
Knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance, and procedures.
Knowledge of key children’s agencies.
Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to racism, discrimination and equality of opportunity.
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to maintain high quality records, writing clear, concise, child-centred reports and plans.
Ability to create a rapport and build relationships with children/young people and their families using a person centred, strengths-based approach.
Ability to prioritise tasks, be accountable for managing own caseload and work to tight deadlines and targets.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills including the ability to deal with complex issues in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
Commitment to and understanding of anti-racist, anti-discriminatory social work practice. Ability to positively challenge discrimination and oppressive behaviours.
Ability to thrive in a complex, fast paced and demanding environment.
Ability to lead, chair or participate in a range of multi-disciplinary meetings.
Ability to work as part of a team, using own initiative and sharing expertise and experience with others.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.
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Job Ref: CCC (HQ) CCC16764
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
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