Gateshead Council - Referral and Assessment Team
Are you a compassionate and dedicated social worker with a passion for making a difference in the lives of teenagers?
Gateshead contextual safeguarding team are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Social Workers to join their expanding team. The team consists of adolescent social workers, Edge of Care advocates, homeless prevention workers and a specialist exploitation Workers. The team specialises in harm outside the home and our edge of care advocates work intensively alongside both social workers and families to prevent teenagers coming into care and empowering families to create their own network of support.
Responsibilities
Work alongside our homeless prevention workers and exploitation workers to provide additional support for families
Work alongside a team of specialist health professions which include speech and language therapists, psychologists, specialist nurse practitioners
Weekly multi-agency systemic unit meeting and peer mapping with the Police which gives the opportunity for joint peer reflection on families we are supporting and the worries we may be facing as a team.
The role is both demanding and challenging but the reward and satisfaction of making the lives of teenagers in our local area safer far outweigh these. You need to be a qualified social worker, registered with SWE and an enhanced DBS would be required but you already knew that, whilst that is important, what we think is equally as important is the ability to engage with teenagers, the ability to manage risk and be calm under pressure. We are developing our training offer to the team to ensure that everyone is skilled to face these challenges head on
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
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