Childrens Social Worker Duty and Assessment #000A10001
Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.
The role:
We are keen to recruit agency social workers with experience of statutory social work with children and families. Contracts can be offered in theinitialperiod for up to 6 months, to provide candidates with stability and security in the role.
We want to make sure that we are responsive to our agency workers’ needs. Our model of working from referral to permanence or closure means that wehave the ability tocater caseloads to our agency workers’ interests –on the whole, we offer our agency workers a caseload of Child Protection and Child in Need but can discussallocatingcourt cases or cared for children, where this is in the interests of our agency staff.
We are centrally based in town hall district of Stockport –all ofsocial work teams are co-located with our health, police, Early Help and MASSH colleagues and currently we have some vacancies across our borough. Our average caseload is 20; whilst there are some fluctuations across teams, we are dedicated as an authority to ensuring a manageable caseload for our social workers and we review this regularly.
We ensure a strong induction for our agency workers, with a gradual increase in caseload and complexity ofwork. Alongside this, we offer high quality reflective supervisionon a monthly basis–all ofour team leaders are trained in reflective and systemic supervision. There are opportunities for group and reflective supervision delivered by senior practitioners and our workforce development team and there are opportunities to seek specialist advice and consultation from our Aspire service about domestic abuse and complex safeguarding.
Each team has 1 team leader, 2 senior practitioners and 6 social workers. The teams are focussed on small geographical areas across Stockport and have link relationships with local schools, health professionals and borough-wide services through our Team around the School model. Our team leaders and senior practitioners are well-established and know Stockportreally welland havereally goodrelationships with our senior management team.
In terms of working patterns,as a local authority, we recognise that flexibility for our workforce is key. Our social workers tell us that they appreciate time spent together as a team but also that they enjoy theoptionof working from homeas well. We have modern technology to supportthisand we are happy to discuss and consider requests for flexible or reduced hours,to suit individualcandidates’needs.
We are open to questions from and conversations with prospective candidates and look forward to welcoming you into our family!
Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP
What’s on offer for the Social Worker
· Excellent competitive pay rate – paid weekly!
· Excellent management structure with experienced leaders
· Desirable location with excellent transport links
· A stable and well-supported working environment
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Enhanced DBS completed.
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