Qualified Social Worker

Help and Protection Location: West Midlands Pay rate: £33.30 per hour We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join a Qualified Social Worker in the Help and Protection team. As part of this dedicated team, you will be working in a busy and supportive environment assessing and working with children and families and intervening where children need support to provide more help at an earlier stage.

Assessment work directly with children and their families whilst also partnering with agencies including the police and health to ensure the best possible outcome with sustainable positive change. The service ensures a strong link with our Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help colleagues to promote local community support for children and families when social care no longer needs to be involved.

Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person-centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

You’ll be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable results from your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly, however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Creative, flexible and forward-thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
• 5 Years plus Qualified.

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
• Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to.
• An easy registration process (all done online).
• Referral schemes and incentives.
• Ongoing compliance managed for you.
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from Royal Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Stratford upon Avon, Nuneaton, Coventry, Rugby, Bedworth, Warwick, Solihull, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leicester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Banbury, Northampton, Leicester, Loughborough.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, Front door/First Response, Safeguarding, Duty & Assessment, Children in Need, Child protection, EHCP, AMHP, children in care, Vulnerable People, Children’s Social Work, Children with Disabilities, Fostering, youth justice practitioner, Adult Social Work, Long Term, Mental Health, Hospital Discharge, Homeless Intervention, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

Not looking right now? We also offer generous referral bonuses so please pass on to a colleague or friend who may be!