Screening Officer
Location: Ilford - office based
Hours: 36 hours
Pay Rate: £17.54 per hour PAYE - Paid weekly
Duration: 6 weeks rolling temporary contract.
Job Responsibly:
The Screening Officer's role is pivotal to the initial management on concerns about children at the front door to Domestic Abuse cases. The role is responsible for the logging of all contacts into the system, initial screening of contacts and the provision of advice and information of contacts and directly to service users.
- Screening officers are required to have a high standard of written and spoken English to deal with enquires from the public, professionals and legal departments.
- Liaise with professionals from all areas of the specialist posts within the MASH notably the Domestic Abuse worker, No Recourse to public funds worker, health visitor, senior social worker, early intervention team, schools, adult social services and housing.
- Complete MASH checks identifying unknown children referrals that are sent to the hub
- Identify initially whether the subject is known to the department and if so, whether the case is current.
- To receive and record telephone referrals on new cases
- Complete professional file redacting preparing files for local authority social workers and professionals to view
- Direct and signpost members of the public providing advice and information on local services
- Work with duty social workers and team managers to apply the councils level of need, indicators and response to incoming contacts
- To follow up process referrals from the police on domestic violence
- To make referrals to the police where there are safeguarding concerns for children and where details of children are unknown
Previous experience:
- Experience of direct work with the children and families in a statutory setting
- Experience with IT packages, particularly in work processing, spreadsheets and using client index databases
A full job description can be provided upon request.
A fully enhanced DBS will be required for the successful candidate, this can be an enhanced DBS registered on the update service or a new certificate will cost yourself £41.95 and Adecco can complete an application with you for a certificate to be issued to your home address.
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