Social Worker - Assessment Team
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Cambridgeshire, Eastern England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | NISI ENTERPRISES LIMITED |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | CCC17751 Cambridgeshire |
Summary
We are looking to recruit a Social Worker on a temporary basis.
Job Title: Social Worker
Location: Cambridgeshire
Pay: £40 per hour
Contract: Temporary, 3 Months
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Initial Start Date: ASAP
Overview:
Under the general direction of a Team Manager, provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of vulnerable children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines. Work in partnership with families using the Family Safeguarding model, taking a strengths-based approach to assess need, plan and deliver focused interventions to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes. Build meaningful working relationships with children and young people that enable their voice to be heard and their lived experience to be understood. Work with multi-agency colleagues and partners to ensure holistic engagement with children and their families.
Job Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Qualifications:
Essential:
-Recognised professional Social Work qualification (Degree/Masters/Post
Graduate Diploma/Social Work fast track qualifying programme)
-Current Social Work England registration
Desirable:
-Relevant specialist post qualifying and or post graduate training.
Experience:
Essential:
-Experience of social work with children and families, building effective
helping relationships and overcoming challenges in doing so
-Experience of recording, summarising, analysing and evaluating complex
information
-Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing
effective social work interventions in partnership with children and families
Desirable:
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:
-Car driver with full UK licence. Ability to work from a variety of locations and
travel countywide
-Excellent IT skills and ability to use a variety of IT devices, systems and
databases.
-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.
Job Title: Social Worker
Location: Cambridgeshire
Pay: £40 per hour
Contract: Temporary, 3 Months
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Initial Start Date: ASAP
Overview:
Under the general direction of a Team Manager, provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of vulnerable children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines. Work in partnership with families using the Family Safeguarding model, taking a strengths-based approach to assess need, plan and deliver focused interventions to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes. Build meaningful working relationships with children and young people that enable their voice to be heard and their lived experience to be understood. Work with multi-agency colleagues and partners to ensure holistic engagement with children and their families.
Job Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Qualifications:
Essential:
-Recognised professional Social Work qualification (Degree/Masters/Post
Graduate Diploma/Social Work fast track qualifying programme)
-Current Social Work England registration
Desirable:
-Relevant specialist post qualifying and or post graduate training.
Experience:
Essential:
-Experience of social work with children and families, building effective
helping relationships and overcoming challenges in doing so
-Experience of recording, summarising, analysing and evaluating complex
information
-Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing
effective social work interventions in partnership with children and families
Desirable:
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:
-Car driver with full UK licence. Ability to work from a variety of locations and
travel countywide
-Excellent IT skills and ability to use a variety of IT devices, systems and
databases.
-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.