Qualified Social Worker
Duty and Assessment
Location: Greater Manchester
Pay rate: £38 per hour
We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join a Duty and Assessment Team. You will be working in a busy and supportive team that assesses and works with children and families, intervening where children need support to provide help at an earlier stage. Assessment work involves direct engagement with children and their families, partnering with agencies including the police and health to ensure the best possible outcomes with sustainable positive change. The service maintains a strong link with our Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help colleagues to promote local community support for children and families when social care involvement is no longer needed. We offer regular monthly supervision and group reflective supervision.
Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care, you will support the delivery of person-centred, safe, and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience, you’ll make assessments and decisions about appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills, you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to meet identified needs.
You’ll be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.
Perfect candidate will be:
* Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
* Experienced in working with children and families, including those from vulnerable groups.
* Experience working within Court, Children in Need, and Child Protection.
* Supporting children and families subject to CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings, and court proceedings.
* Understanding factors that impact children, including abuse and neglect.
* Undertake Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision-making, planning, and review.
* Undertake effective direct work with children and families.
* Creative, flexible, and forward-thinking in approach.
* Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
* Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
* Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
* Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
* Committed to providing our service users with high-quality service.
* Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
* 2+ years qualified.
In this role you will:
* Use your skills, knowledge, and experience to make comprehensive assessments of risks, protection, and social care needs.
* Manage an agreed case load.
* Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimal outcomes for service users.
* Devise individual care plans, considering diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:
* A dedicated consultant with access to roles across the UK, available for support.
* An easy online registration process.
* Referral schemes and incentives.
* Ongoing compliance management.
* Prompt payroll and more.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Trafford, Macclesfield, Warrington, Wigan, Huddersfield, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Altrincham, Middleton, Urmston, Irlam, Stretford, Eccles, and Salford.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If this role isn’t right for you, contact us about other opportunities including IRO, BIA, MASH, Children Looked After, Safeguarding, EHCP, Mental Health, Children in Care, Fostering, Youth Justice, Adult Social Work, and more.
Not looking now? We offer generous referral bonuses—please pass this on to colleagues or friends who may be interested! Contact me for more information.
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