Children's Social Worker - Complex Safeguarding in Manchester

Our client Manchester City Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Complex Safeguarding team.

About the Candidate:

We are looking for individuals with a passion for working with adolescents, who have excellent communication skills and a sound understanding of social work and exploitation. Candidates should be creative and innovative in their work, with a passion for creative direct work approaches, tenacity, and trauma-informed ways of working. We would welcome applications from the global majority and specifically males as we are underrepresented in the area. Experience of working directly with communities is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• You will support the locality social work teams in accessing, supporting, and disrupting exploitative abuse and supporting children and their families with recovery from this harm.
• You will consult with partner agencies about individual children presenting with indicators of exploitative abuse and/or Serious Violence worries, logging the consultations, analysis, and recommendations on the Liquid Logic system.
• You will expedite safeguarding concerns into existing pathways to access the right support for the child and family.
• You will attend Strategy Meetings and planning meetings, completing concise reports to share with the school and Children's Services while offering your analysis and advice as a Social Worker relating to the next step.
• You will support Police with operations that aim to tackle and disrupt exploitation, including outreach work in Manchester City Centre.
• You will directly work with children at risk of and those experiencing exploitative abuse and/or those affected by Serious Violence.
• You will be creative in your planning and utilise a variety of resources to enhance your engagement with the child.
• You will champion positive language across your professional networks to ensure that the child is advocated for in an appropriate way.
• You will develop and sustain strong working relationships with partners across the city, inclusive of the voluntary sector.
• You will be flexible and tenacious in your practice, demonstrating creativity in your work while developing positive relationships based on trust with vulnerable children.
• You will be based within the Complex Safeguarding Multiagency Hub, working alongside GMP Police Officers, NHS Specialist Nurse, Early Help, MFH Team, and the Children's Society.
• You will work with colleagues in social work teams across the city to support and advise on exploitation issues.
• You will champion the Trusted Relationship Model and utilise Clinical Psychologist sessions to understand the child's presentation and how best to engage them.
• You will undertake assessments of risk and implement robust safety planning, delivering bespoke interventions with the child to achieve multiagency disruption of abuse and reduction of harm.

Essential requirements for the role:

• Social Work Qualification and registered with Social Work England.
• Driving Licence and access to a car.
• Previous Social Work experience and completion of ASYE.
• Experience of completing assessments, detailed plans, and producing and delivering training/Supervision to a wide range of professionals.
• Working in a multi-agency setting and developing positive and meaningful relationships with colleagues within Education, health, Police, and wider organisations supporting children.
• Good IT skills and ability to use Microsoft systems and navigate recording systems.
• Ability to undertake effective direct work with children and families and build trusted relationships with teenagers.
• Understanding factors that impact children including abuse, neglect, and extra-familial harm.
• Deliver performance management and service improvement.
• Understanding the law and the family justice system, undertaking ongoing research.

Benefits of working with Remedy:

• A personal one-on-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs.
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply. You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is an APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.