Trafford Council are looking for an experienced social worker for their Cared for Children Team.
Responisbilities:
* Use the threshold agreement to identify risk, supporting partners working with families to manage risk and support change that safeguards children and can be sustained in their daily life.
* Undertake purposeful professional assessments with families which consider child’s needs, presenting risks, and protective factors with clear analysis and plan to support the required changes change.
* Work directly with families employing a range of social work knowledge and skills to identify and assess the parents capability to meet each individual children and young person’s social, emotional, educational, occupational, recreational and cultural needs to bring about sustainable improvement and better outcomes for children
* Keep all recordings up to date and child focused, reflecting the voice of the child and impact of their daily lived experience. Ensure there is clarity of the source of information and detail what is fact and what is professional judgement within appropriate timescales
* Ensure that all assessments and formal documents are completed accurately and are written clearly and concisely avoiding jargon. Assess, evaluate and review programmes of work with children, young people and families including the coordination of services to children who are the subjects of multi-agency protection plans or who are children in care and their families.
* Attend multi-agency meetings, reviews and conferences as required and represent the Local Authority in Private and Public Law proceedings.
* Ensure that professional registration with Social Work England is maintained and undertake at least the minimum professional development (CPD) to ensure continued registration.
* Work in partnership with colleagues within the multi-agency service and with external agencies, to ensure plans for children are implemented and outcomes are recorded.
* Engage in individual and group supervision with practice managers and practice leads.
* Mentor and/or supervise junior colleagues or students and facilitate individual and group supervision with team members.
You must have 3 Years experience within a permanant role to apply for this role.