Location
Hounslow, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Airport Social Worker
Job Type: Part time, permanent, (2 days per week)
Location : Terminal 3 arrivals, Heathrow Airport
Salary: £34,000 pro rata per annum
The Role
Our client are an airport base social work charity. They provide an effective, responsive, and professional generic crisis Social Work service within the context of the aims and objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- To receive and respond appropriately to all referrals and requests made to Heathrow Travel-Care. These referrals will be working with vulnerable people including those suffering Mental distress, homelessness, deportees, repatriations, older people, victims of internet scams, returning distressed British National from abroad, destitute or vulnerable persons and more.
- To liaise with their partners at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office regarding the safe return of distressed British Nationals.
- To engage with casework and project work to agreed professional standards. To retain a critical awareness of issues identified through their work and to bring those issues to the attention of the team, as consistent with the aims and objectives of the agency and with regard to agency resources.
- To retain an up-to-date working knowledge of current legislation and guidance affecting Social Work practice and the day-to-day operation of the agency and consistently share this knowledge with the rest of the team.
- To make and maintain effective professional links with relevant agencies both on and off the airport. To undertake training/development initiatives as required.
- To participate positively in planning and developing the work of the agency, proposing and implementing appropriate initiatives identified through current workload and in discussion with the staff team.
- To participate in the agency’s Emergency Response, as required, including briefing and debriefing.
Skills & Qualifications
- Be passionate about social work
- Have a record of upholding human rights
- Be an excellent communicator (verbally and in writing)
- Be an effective online ‘researcher
- Be an effective problem solver
- Have a ‘can-do attitude’
- Enjoy learning and embrace positive change
Benefits
- Local authority pension scheme
- Social Work England Fee paid annually
- On airport free car parking minutes from the office
- Free Heathrow Express travel between airport and Paddington, once receive airside ID pass 30 days a year airport long stay car parking
- Variety of unique work in the UK's only airport based Social Work team
To Apply
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£34k per annum
