Job Opportunity: Qualified Social Worker - Children's Intervention and Planning
Location: Barnet
About Us:
Join our dedicated team focused on Children's Intervention and Planning within Social Care. Make a meaningful impact by working with families and adolescents facing various challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Role: Provide exceptional social work within a multi-professional team, taking the lead for families caring for adolescents facing challenges such as child sexual exploitation, serious youth violence, and group offending.
- Resilience Enhancement: Enhance the resilience of children, young people, and their families through evidence-based strategies for sustainable change.
- Complex Situations Management: Manage complex situations with guidance from your line manager and the multi-professional team, ensuring effective risk management and resolution of family issues.
- Rapport Building: Build rapport and maintain respectful relationships with children, young people, and their families, accurately gathering and documenting their perspectives.
- Engagement and Communication: Engage and communicate regularly with support networks for children, young people, and families, incorporating their input into assessments and plans.
- Thorough Assessments: Conduct thorough assessments of children and young people's circumstances, utilizing observations and data to inform interventions and service provision recommendations.
- Direct Work: Work directly with families in various settings, including their homes, to implement interventions and enhance resilience, always prioritizing the best interests of the children and young people involved.
- Trust and Engagement: Foster trust and engagement with adolescents, promptly reporting any concerns about parenting quality or child safety.
- Change Plan Development: Develop and implement effective change plans in collaboration with relevant professionals and family members, ensuring clear objectives, support mechanisms, and monitoring procedures.
- Progress Monitoring: Utilize measurement tools to track progress and impact of interventions, providing regular feedback to families.
- Reporting and Representation: Prepare detailed written reports based on complex evidence regarding work with children, young people, and families, and represent the Council in court proceedings when necessary.
- Knowledge Sharing: Proactively share knowledge of local resources and support services with families, facilitating connections as needed.
- Flexibility: Demonstrate reliability and flexibility in working hours to meet the diverse needs of children, young people, and families.
Preferred Experience:
- Post-qualification experience in statutory Children's Safeguarding Social Work within the UK.
Minimum Requirements:
- A minimum of 1 year of experience working as a social worker within children's services in the UK.
- Completion of the ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment).
- Experience working with children and families in any setting.
- Experience with high-risk/high-vulnerability adolescents.
- Experience in statutory work, particularly Child Protection.
- Essential training in Children Act, Child Protection Work, Direct Work with Children, Assessment skills, Integrated Children's System.
- Proficiency in Level Two/Three Skills and Competency Framework for Social Workers and Children Knowledge and Skills Statements.
Benefits:
- Free parking.
- Access to CPD and systemic training.
- Hybrid working opportunities.
- Opting into a lower pension scheme can increase the salary to up to £62,500.
- Sponsorship opportunities for candidates with a minimum of 1 year of experience as a social worker within children's services in the UK.
How to Apply: To discuss this role further or explore similar vacancies in Barnet, please contact Phil Puaca at Ackerman Pierce on