Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Wirral
Our Client, a Merseyside Local Authority, is seeking a Children's Social Worker to join its Permanence Team.
Fantastic payrate of £38 per hour!
Are you a Children's Advanced Social Worker, passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and their families? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
Responsibilities of this role:
- Working within the standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by Social Work England, ensuring compliance with legal, organisational, and multi-agency requirements, take a lead role in ensuring that all operational social work practice involving safeguarding, child protection and high-level risk is of the highest possible standard and in accordance with relevant legislation and agreed policy, procedures, and guidance.
- Ensure through the provision of services that children are safe and achieving good outcomes.
- Provide practice or professional leadership, through the development of research informed practice, quality assurance, staff development, knowledge development or management.
- Influence and contribute to strategic development in the organisation.
- Guide and support a range of internal and external professionals on cases where there are particularly high levels of complexity or risk.
- Ensure that effective risk management, decision making, and preventative work is undertaken to ensure that children are safeguarded effectively.
- Chair meetings that carry high levels of complexity or risk.
- Ensure complex cases that involve external partners, and their respective legal, statutory, and regulatory functions are referred to the Safeguarding Unit for wider consideration.
- Support interventions that may require complex court work (court of protection).
- Authorise and quality assure reports, assessments, and court documentation to ensure appropriate evaluation of risk and present evidence-based statements to Court.
- Take a constructive approach towards innovation and changes in methods of working to provide the best outcomes for children and families.
- Lead on specific projects including service developments and manage a caseload as and when required.
Requirements of this role:
- Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
- Experience of working with children, young people, and families.
- Supporting and mentoring staff.
- Experience of assessment and care planning.
- Experience of undertaking safeguarding investigations, assessing and managing risk and planning appropriate interventions.
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!