Social Worker Family Support

Description:

Social Worker Family Support and Protection – Mid Essex

We are delighted to be working with our client, who is looking for a Social Worker to join the Family Support and Protection team on a temporary basis for an initial period of 3 months. The successful candidate will be an experienced registered social worker, educated to degree level, with the ability to demonstrate practice in accordance with current professional standards.

** The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential. **

Location: Chelmsford

Payrate: £34,712 to £46,751 per annum

Contract type: temporary opportunity for a period of 3 months.

Key accountabilities for Social Worker Family Support and Protection:

* Assess complex social care needs and provide support to children and families.

* Develop support plans that gain commitment to solutions that enable the child, young person, and family to build resilience and look forward to a brighter future.

* Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached.

* Work collaboratively, building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships and stakeholders and the voluntary sector, to assist children and their families and carers in gaining support.

* Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a child or young person and promote their welfare, including appropriate intervention as determined by need.

* Develop a child centred approach which enables early intervention and prevention and increases independence.

* Pro-actively influences in a range of inter-agency planning, decision making and case discussions.

* Communicate assessments and professional judgements clearly and succinctly both orally and in writing, including report writing and court statements.

* Work with families, communities, and individuals to help people get the best start in life and age well, supporting strategic aims.

* Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The experience you will bring for Social Worker Family Support and Protection:

* A recognised social work qualification i.e. Diploma, degree or master’s in social work, CQSW, CSS or equivalent, with current registration with Social Work England as a registered social worker.

* A minimum of 2 years’ experience.

* Experience within a social work setting with evidence of challenging social and family situations.

* Strong communication skills and an ability to develop a rapport and engage with diverse groups of individuals.

* Developing strong relationships with partners, other agencies, and the local community, to achieve joint objectives and offer a supportive framework for children and families.

Benefits of working for 24-7 recruitment as a Social Worker Family Support and Protection:

* Fantastic opportunity to join the Public Sector workforce.

* Weekly pay

* 28 days holiday (Exclusive PAYE)

* Access to online portal and payslips

* Amazing existing team

* Free onsite parking

* Flexible working options and other lifestyle benefits, we’ll enable you to make the most of your life outside work, too.

* We’ll support you to be to your best, with the resources, training, and development to empower you.

Our client applies a robust recruitment vetting process. If you are successful, you will need to undergo a Pre-employment Vetting Procedure.

What to do next?

If this Social Worker Family Support and Protection position sounds like the role for you, we would love you to get in touch. Please apply online and one of the team will be in touch