Provide high quality social work as part of a multi-professional team, acting, as required, as the lead professional for families caring for adolescents presenting with a range of needs including being victims/perpetrators of child sexual exploitation, young people affected or involved in serious youth violence and group offending, missing from home.
Use the direction, support and guidance of your line manager and the multiprofessional team to effectively manage the range of complexities of risk and ambiguity families present with.
Build the resilience of children, young people and their families by using evidenced based approaches to achieve sustained change.
Barnet Council is seeking dedicated and experienced Social Workers to join our Children with Disabilities Team, specifically within our Specialist Autism Team.
Great Opportunity to Join Barnet as a Social Worker
Job Advertisement: Social Worker for Children with Disabilities Team (Specialist Autism Team) - Barnet Council
Expectation to: Social Worker Lead Practitioners are expected to deliver Barnet's vision of strengths based social care we rely on working closely with our partners and importantly our competent, confident, creative, and caring workforce
Responsibilities will include
Ensuring that the responsibility of safeguarding adults at risk is a fundamental element of this job and that the principles are embedded in all procedures, practices, professional advice, decisions and support.
The mentoring and supervision to staff within the team ensuring professional standards and best practice.