Social Worker - Referral and Assessment Team

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,614 per annum.

Main duties:

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.

• To manage an agreed caseload of children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards.

• Undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.

• To work to range of legal options to support investigation and protection and accommodation; if required give evidence in court; using contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances.

• To ensure the provision of clear written reports to child protection conferences, reviews, planning meetings and any other purpose as required, ensuring good quality casework analysis and risk assessment is evident throughout.

• Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to formulate care plans in partnership, based on their assessment of need, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to their planning.

• To ensure the planning and review of statutory work with children and young people is in accordance with statutory regulation and to produce written reports and other documentation for this purpose.

• Maintain an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. To make effective use of supervision and appraisal as an opportunity to critically reflect on casework and to identify learning and development needs to continually improve upon practice; and to support continual professional development.

• To establish and maintain good communication across children’s social care and with departments and agencies to facilitate the improvement and development of the service.

• Ensure the wellbeing of employees and service-users by actively promoting and complying with health and safety regulations, polices and procedures.

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

• Understanding of relevant legislation.

• Continual professional development.

• Social Work England registered., Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

This Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.