Job title: Social Worker - Children and Families Job Category: Social Care Qualified Hours per week: 37 Location: Atlas House, 2 Corporation Street, St Helens, WA9 1LD, St. Helens MBC Pay: £27.00 per hour Minimum x2 days in the office Job description Post: Social Worker Department: Children & Young People Services Department Grade: 1-10 (Children’s Qualified Social Worker Scale) Responsible to: Assistant Team Manager Purpose of the Post: To manage a protected caseload within a framework of supervision, including the referral, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of appropriate action to ensure that resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, families and carers. Working within the standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by the Health and Social Care Professional Council (SWE) ensuring compliance with legal, organisational and multi-agency requirements. To work in accordance with statutory, organisational and local multi agency Policies, procedures and arrangements. Appropriate to additional training and experience, undertake specialist roles commensurate with pay grades. Duties and Responsibilities Associated with Assessed and Supported Year in Employment Scheme for Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) SCP 1-3 Within the relevant context of the role (with others, within statutory, organisational and multi-agency systems and in partnership with children, young people and their families and carers) carry out the following tasks. 1. To manage a protected caseload within a framework of supervision under the direction of the Team and Assistant Team Manager, including the referral, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of appropriate action to ensure that resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, families and carers. 2. Participate in and meet the learning, training and outcomes goals of the St Helens Social Work Academy 3. To demonstrate and achieve competence as outlined in the Knowledge and Skills Statement for Children and Family Practitioners. 4. To promote the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and their families in St Helens. 5. To carry out timely assessments on children, young people and families in accordance with the Framework of Assessment and Working Together guidance. 6. Ensure assessments and planning for children and young people actively promote the participation and engagement of all relevant agencies, the child/young person and their family. 7. Prepare/facilitate care plans for children and young people which take account of their views and wishes in the implementation of these care plans. 8. Assess the needs of children and young people who require social work services, including the identification of risk and the need for protection. To develop, coordinate and delivery multi-agency plans to meet assessed needs and to review these plans to ensure they continue to meet assessed needs. 9. Undertake social work with families in order to reduce the need for care or accommodation, and a range of community care and safeguarding assessments in accordance with relevant statutory requirements, identifying risks and appropriate support plans. 10. To participate in developmental activities as may be required to promote improvement of service or the use of resources. 11. To accurately record, critically analyse and keep up to date information using the appropriate IT systems in accordance with the Departments recording policy. To produce relevant reports, including court statements to a high standard, as required. 12. Create and maintain effective relationships with children, young people, their parents, families and carers to ensure the diverse needs are identified, met and regularly reviewed. 13. Develop and maintain positive working relations with a wide of partner agencies in the public, private, voluntary and community faith sectors in order to support families. 14. To actively recognise and utilise the processes for identifying the emotional demands of the role and maximising opportunities to access health and wellbeing maintenance support. This includes contributing to team wellbeing support initiatives and functions. In addition to the above the following duties and responsibilities associated with Social Worker SCP 4 - 6 Within the relevant context of the role (with others, within statutory, organisational and multi agency systems and in partnership with children, young people and their families and carers) carry out the following tasks: 1. To hold