Qualified Social Worker
Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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Salary: | £38.00 per hour |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
Location: | Devon, South West England |
Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
Company: | Total Social |
Job type: | Contract |
Job reference: | 202507185271758DMS |
Summary
Total Social are working with Devon County Council who are looking for an experienced locum Children's Social Worker for their Front Door Team in Exeter.
Located in Exeter & East, our Childrens Front Door is the central resource for the whole of Devon receiving all safeguarding and child protection enquiries.
The Front Door is staffed with professionals from a range of agencies including police, health, education, probation.
These professionals share information to ensure early identification of potential significant harm, and trigger interventions to prevent further harm or to safeguard children’s welfare.
The Front Door staff gather and review information from a range of agencies and use this to decide the most appropriate way to support a family and ensure the needs of children are met
Where appropriate, the Front Door team is able to immediately trigger a response, the emphasis being on interventions to the child or young person and their family to prevent harm
Working together in this way ensures that the agencies are sharing information and can respond to a child’s needs quickly and efficiently.
Located in Exeter & East, our Childrens Front Door is the central resource for the whole of Devon receiving all safeguarding and child protection enquiries.
The Front Door is staffed with professionals from a range of agencies including police, health, education, probation.
These professionals share information to ensure early identification of potential significant harm, and trigger interventions to prevent further harm or to safeguard children’s welfare.
The Front Door staff gather and review information from a range of agencies and use this to decide the most appropriate way to support a family and ensure the needs of children are met
Where appropriate, the Front Door team is able to immediately trigger a response, the emphasis being on interventions to the child or young person and their family to prevent harm
Working together in this way ensures that the agencies are sharing information and can respond to a child’s needs quickly and efficiently.