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Qualified Social Worker - Reunification Location: Greater Manchester Pay rate: £43 We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join a dedicated Reunification Team . As part of the Greater Manchester Reunification Team you will be part of a fast paced, busy and supportive team who assess and work with Children and place back with parents wherever possible 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 Qualified Social Workers 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 ensure positive and sustainable results of 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 Adults. Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users. Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with clients 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 2 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 Manchester, Northwich, Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead, Wirral, Liverpool, Skelmersdale, Wigan, Warrington, Bolton, Altrincham, Cheadle, St Helens, Widnes, Runcorn, Bolton, Bury, Trafford, Tameside, Macclesfield, Warrington, Huddersfield, Oldham, Ashton under Lyne, Bury, Middleton, Urmston, Huddersfield, Irlam, Stretford, Eccles and Salford, Rochdale and Stockport.
Seven Resourcing are currently seeking a Erase Support Worker to work within Durham Council. This is a full time position, and we are paying £15.95 per hour for this role. The role: To identify and monitor young people and vulnerable adults at risk of or subject to sexual exploitation and to ensure an effective multi-agency response to safeguard them is in place. To identify and monitor all missing and absent young people and ensure an appropriate support plan is in place to support their needs. The role of the Support Worker will be to work alongside Police Colleagues, and colleagues from the Social Care Teams, to share knowledge and support to provide an effective response to those young people and vulnerable adults identified as being at risk. Key Responsibilities: Work closely with partner agencies to identify children at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and respond at the earliest opportunity. To contribute to the education and knowledge of others regarding CSE A flexible approach to intervention, which will include planned intervention and outreach work. Liaise with local communities, build networks with local agencies and partners Assist in the development of an early response and preventative approach to young people who go missing from home To work with children/young people and their families to identify needs to achieve positive engagement and outcomes. Work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them to provide appropriate parenting and care Applicant Requirements: Qualifications: GCSEs A-C or equivalent including at least English and Maths. Educated to A Level standard or equivalent experience Experience: 2 years working within a similar role. Compliance: Current Standard DBS check. Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently. Hours: 37 hours p/w. Working with Seven Social Care: We have been helping social care professionals find exciting new roles for almost a decade, so we know exactly where to look when it comes to sourcing the best opportunities. We operate across the UK, and, with over 300 five-star reviews, multiple awards and amazing relationships with the biggest employers in UK social care, we give you the best chance of landing your next role. We have a reputation for recruiting at lightning speed, however, we can only respond to candidates who meet the exact requirements of the position. If you have any queries about a role or application, please visit our website where our amazing candidate support team will be more than happy to help.
Social Worker Team Manager Children's Family Help Team Farnborough/Aldershot £47.50 per hour You will manage a team of qualified social workers and support staff in the Family Help Team (Safeguarding) to ensure that children in care and those in need, including those requiring protection, receive high quality services and are enabled and encouraged to shape future services. You will be a confident and experienced manager with sound knowledge of the legislation and practice that underpins child protection work and be committed to delivering services that are of the highest standard. For you, we offer the chance to be a part of supportive and well-resourced management team, working for a department that is moving from strength to strength with an opportunity to develop your management skills, knowledge and experience. Role Responsibilities: Responsible for keeping own and practitioner's awareness of employment law and HCC's policies and procedures up to date, to ensure management practice is compliant. Attend management training events and local briefings to ensure continued professional development. Identify training & development needs for staff to ensure they are competent for their role. Deal with performance and conduct issues promptly and according to County Council Policies and procedures. Through strong leadership, motivate staff to work in a responsive and effective way that demonstrates the ethos of the department and achieves high scores against performance indicators. Ensure national care standards and initiatives such as person-centred planning and national service frameworks are complied with in practice. Encourage the application of research and experience and learning from good and bad experiences to effect continuous personal and service development/improvement and evidence-based practice. Ensure that all HCC's child protection policies are adhered to and concerns are raised in accordance with these policies. Set standards on Social Work practice and approaches to problems and take decisions to ensure they are complied with. Set standards of work practice within multi-disciplinary teams and taking decisions to ensure they are complied with including application of disciplinary and capability procedures. Decide on action to be taken regarding protection of vulnerable children and adults pending court decisions. Decide on level of intervention/service provision to ensure assessed needs are met in the most cost-effective way. Respond to complaints from service users, their relatives, staff and exercising judgement. Carry out risk assessments and ensure control measures are in place and complied with maintaining equality of opportunity and good management of diversity. Chair various meetings, ensuring progress of cases and regular supervision of staff, as per HCC's policies and procedures. Quality assure work within your team to ensure best practice in a timely manner. Responsible for effective management of delegated budgets to deliver services which comply with recognised best practice, national care standards, represent value for money and remain within allocated cash limits. Requirements 3 years post qualifying experience in child care social work Direct experience in management Benefits A 9 day working fortnight A personal assistant, who will provide crucial back office support to free up your time to focus on professional practice. A hybrid tablet device, so you can work more effectively and flexibly. 5 personal development days per annum. Access to permanent vacancies as they are released. Flexible working options to fit around today's lifestyle £47.50 per hour (umbrella rate) for Qualified Social Worker About Us Connect2Hampshire is a managed service agency owned by Hampshire County Council providing temporary, contract and interim opportunities into the Council. Our service is built on our values of ethical, trustworthy, and caring, and our profits are returned to our Local Authority shareholders. Connect2Hampshire, part of Hampshire & Kent Commercial Services LLP, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.