Child and Family Practitioner Social Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £46,419.00 i £55,046.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46419.00 - £55046.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, NW1 2BU |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9309-25-1108 |
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You will play a pivotal role in early intervention, guiding each childs journey from initial referral through to recovery. As part of our duty system, you will provide timely advice, safeguarding oversight and risk management at the point of referral, ensuring that concerns are identified, escalated and responded to appropriately. The role involves undertaking integrated, holistic assessments that bring together multidisciplinary perspectives, and delivering direct therapeutic and practical support to children and their carers. You will work closely with CAMHS clinicians, our paediatric health team and NSPCC therapeutic practitioners to coordinate care and ensure a seamless response. You will manage a complex caseload with a high degree of autonomy, maintaining safe, effective practice, and you will actively contribute to ongoing service development, helping to strengthen our approach to the treatment, protection and recovery of children who have experienced sexual abuse Act as the lead practitioner for each child on your caseload, offering steady support throughout their recovery and ensuring that their voice and lived experience guide every stage of our practice. Contribute to the Lighthouse duty system by reviewing referrals, offering safeguarding oversight and ensuring that any concerns are promptly escalated to the Consultant Social Worker. Act as the key point of coordination for children, young people and their families during their time with the Lighthouse, fostering strong collaboration within families and across partner agencies. Demonstrate the ability to manage a busy and complex workload, meet competing deadlines and use time efficiently. Take a proactive approach to identifying obstacles, resolving problems and supporting the child, young person and their safe family members, acting as their main point of contact within the service. Ensure that children, young people and families have clear, ongoing access to information about what to expect, including guidance on the criminal justice process, social care pathways and the roles of the Lighthouses multidisciplinary team. Provide advice and support to help families make informed decisions, ensuring that children, young people and carers understand their rights throughout their involvement with the service. Participate in Lighthouse multidisciplinary assessments and contribute to care planning to ensure coordinated, trauma-informed responses. Develop, review and recommend safety plans for children and their families, ensuring they align with safeguarding legislation, pan-London procedures and established best practice. Support families in overcoming barriers that may prevent access to recommended services and ensure smooth transitions into community-based provision where onward referrals are made. Use specialist knowledge of child sexual abuse and trauma to deliver direct interventions that assess needs, strengthen resilience and promote recovery for children and their carers. Offer expertise on issues related to child sexual abuse, working collaboratively with community partners and engaging in joint planning, reviews and coordinated interventions with multidisciplinary colleagues. For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff* * UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row. UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working. To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?