Advanced Social Worker - Duty and Assessment Team
| Posting date: | 31 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 November 2024 |
| Location: | Salford, M275AW |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75665191 |
Summary
Advanced Social Worker Duty and Assessment Team
Grade: 4C, £48,710 - £51,802
Working hours: 36 hours per week
Contract type: Temporary 12 month post
Closing date: 15th November 2024
Interviews will be held on 21st November 24
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We are on our way to achieving our goal to provide Outstanding support and care to children, families, carers and practitioners across Salford. We are investing in the right social workers to get us there across our teams from newly qualified social workers to team managers including those who are looking to relocate to the area.
We have a vacancy for an Advanced Social Worker to join us in our Duty and Assessment service for a period of 12 months.
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*Please note that we will not be accepting candidates who require a sponsorship.*
In Salford, we are interested in you as a person and the practitioner you are or who you aspire to be.
The service is currently made of up of 6 sub teams with 6 social workers, 1 advanced social worker, a team manager and service manager. Here on DAT each team is on duty for one week, where you will be allocated new children and families to support and assess. On DAT workers continue intervention with families post C&F assessment until they have had 3 child in need meetings or ICPC has been convened. This means that longer term interventions with families are supported by our child in need and child protection team so families receive a more consistent service.
We are resource rich which helps our workers. This ranges from our bespoke team of family practitioners co-located with the social work teams, dedicated business support alongside minute taking pools to help reduce time spent on admin. We have bespoke Domestic Abuse offer which includes direct work with children, parents and adults that harm and Edge of Care service Route29 who will complete visits and support after working hours and the weekend.
Have a keen interest in an area? Some of our workers are champions in sexual harm, neglect, housing, NRPF and domestic abuse. As a level 2 or 3 social worker we are keen for you to have specialisms or be a ‘champion’ of practice in a certain area.
Your role will include:
- Effectively manage a limited caseload of complex cases in accordance with statutory responsibilities.
- Undertaking a variety of assessment types depending on the needs of the family
- Building effective relationships with children, young people and their families enabling full participation in assessment, planning, review and decision making.
- Effectively manage safeguarding risk including child protection, working within a multi-agency environment, providing a professional social work service. You will secure access to services, negotiating and challenging other professionals and organisations to provide the help required.
- Offering formal, informal, and reflective supervision to qualified social work staff, ASYEs and trainees and contribute to the development of the wider workforce
- Supporting the Practice Manager with the development and performance of the team
- Chairing Strategy Meetings and providing case direction when appropriate
- Leading by example and delivering best practice
What we can offer you:
- Up to 34 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays).
- Competitive salary following pay and grading review in 2023.
- Hybrid working giving flexibility for you to manage your diary and offer a better work/life balance.
- Recently refurbished office space with free parking on site. The majority of our teams are sat together in Swinton at Unity House.
- Rich in resources to help you with any child or family you work with.
- Robust training offer and mentoring scheme to support you with your career and aspirations.
- A comprehensive Wellbeing Offer
- Regular, quality, reflective supervision from a consistent management and leadership team.
If you are interested in knowing more about the make-up of our teams, how we work, our offer to you please visit:
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Our friendly teams could talk your socks off when it comes to all things Social Work. We appreciate you may want to have a look around our offices, meet some staff or your future potential teams and shadow we’re happy to arrange this.
We'd love to hear from you and find out more about what you're looking for so if you'd like to talk to us please just drop a quick message to social.work@salford.gov.uk and we'll get a call arranged. We look forward to hearing from you!
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