Social Worker, up to £42ph, Family Safeguarding, West Sussex
Pertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join the Family Safeguarding team in Chichester.
As a Children's Social Worker, you will be at the forefront of assessing need and risk for vulnerable children and their families. You will be responsible for achieving positive change and improved outcomes by undertaking high quality assessments, care planning and, as appropriate, child protection investigations, to prevent the separation of children from their families where possible. You will ensure that children and young people are adequately protected in line with our policies, procedures and relevant legislation.
West Sussex have a hybrid working policy with 2-3 days a week in office and 5 days for the week the team is on duty (1 week in 6 currently but rising to one in 8 when we have recruited to all teams).
Additional £150pw expenses.
Requirements:
- Experienced worker with at least 2/3 years' experience in a family safeguarding team.
- Recent Front line – child protection work
- Good assessment skills that can identify risk
- Direct work with children to be able to identify their needs
- Good multi agency working experience
- SWE registration
- Car driver and able to drive around the western area of the county to fulfil the role requirement.
If this sounds like the role for you, please contact Aishah Hassan on
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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
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn't the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children's Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager