Our Client, Devon Council, is seeking a Children's Social Worker to join their Front Door Team.
Fantastic payrate of £44 per hour!
Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
Responsibilities of this role:
- To ensure an effective response to children and young people in need of Social work intervention when incident of concern or crisis arise outside of usual business hours.
- To have demonstrable knowledge of child protection, safeguarding children, early help and care of looked after children and apply this to practice within the Out of Hours Service.
- To co-ordinate service provision to meet the needs of those children as required over the out of hours operational period.
- To be responsible for identifying the need to initiate s47 children protection investigations, including leading on the co-ordination of multi agency strategy discussions as required and call in oversight of management including on call service lead.
- To carry out direct work with children and their families in order to meet their assessed need.
- To respect and promote the needs of children arising from their racial, cultural, religious and linguistic background.
- To engage parents, carers and children in meaningful and open working relationships, to encourage their full participation in meeting the needs of the children.
- To support the development of parents and carers as required in order to achieve best outcomes for the children.
- To undertake such work jointly with colleagues within the service and from other agencies in appropriate cases.
- To observe all statutory regulations.
Requirements of this role:
- Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
- Must have a Social Work qualification (Diploma in social work, social work degree or equivalent)
- Must have minimum of 2 years experience working as a Qualified social worker in a similar team
Benefits of working through Reed, include:
- Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
- Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
- Free CV building and Interview support.
- Free DBS checks.
- Weekly payroll.
- PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
- CPD contributions.
- Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
- Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.
Does this role interest you? Apply today!