Social Worker - Recruitment & Assessment Team
Location
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim Social Worker - Recruitment & Assessment Team
Reference no: CCC (HQ) CCC17041
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
Huntingdon but also working from home. There will be some aspects of work with families in their home.
Provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of the children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines. Assess, need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
Identifying through assessment needs and strengths and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
Use analytical skills, interviews and observations to inform assessment, decision making and interventions to achieve desired outcomes within the context of managing risk to children.
Complete support planning with families by understanding the context of child development, parenting capacity and family and environmental factors to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met (within budgetary constraints through the provision of support.
Take a professional lead on safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
Assess and balance risk and protective factors within a child protection framework.
Provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
Ensure legislation is adhered to and challenge decisions where appropriate.
Act as the lead professional and ensure all matters in respect of child protection are dealt with promptly, effectively and in line with the child protection procedures and escalated as necessary.
Provide written and verbal child protection plans where appropriate along with reports appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human rights.
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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)
Must be registered.
Actively undertake a specialist role eg Practice Educator or AMHP or agreement to undertake within the first year.
Knowledge:
Proven knowledge, experience 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
Experience:
Proven previous experience of summarising, analysing and evaluating complex information
Experience of social work with families
Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing effective social work intervention.
Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing effective social work interventions
Experience of using information management systems to produce good quality data in a variety of formats.
Experience of negotiating to reach a resolution
Experience of successfully effecting change
Broad range of experience in multi-agency working
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent communication and negotiation skills including the ability to deal with complex issues in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
Excellent IT skills and ability to use a variety of IT devices, systems and databases.
Ability to write concise reports and have excellent verbal communication skills
Ability to create a rapport and build relationships with children/young people and their families
Ability to prioritise tasks, manage own workload and be accountable for case work
Able to work with a person centred, strengths based approach Essential
Ability to operate in a fast pace, changing environment
Ability to formulate and implement effective social work interventions focused on outcomes
Ability to lead and direct team members regarding professional practice and social work interventions
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Job Ref: CCC (HQ) CCC17041
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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