Job Description
* Job Title: Social Worker (Flintshire Family Intervention Team)
* Department: Children's Services
* Location: Flintshire, United Kingdom
Job Description:
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Social Worker to join our Flintshire Family Intervention Team. The successful candidate will provide a comprehensive social work service in various settings, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and procedures. As a Social Worker, you will be responsible for supporting children, young people, families, and groups within the community, taking on a caseload based on your qualifications and experience.
Key Responsibilities:
* Form, develop, and maintain professional relationships with children, young people, and their families through direct casework, supervision, shared activity, and counselling.
* Provide a service that meets primary needs, promotes development, and assists in addressing behavioural difficulties and vulnerabilities.
* Identify and assess the risk of abuse, failure to protect, or harm to children, and advise senior managers on any concerns.
* Contribute to the development of good practice and take a lead in a special area of responsibility.
* Value, recognize, and respect the diversity, expertise, and experience of individuals, families, and carers, enabling them to make informed decisions and express their needs.
* Challenge discrimination, disadvantage, and other forms of inequality, injustice, and oppressive practice.
* Maximize the financial and material resources available to service users and carers from all possible sources, ensuring value for money care packages.
* Case manage child protection work and understand the changing culture, health, and social needs of the locality to inform current and future practice and service provision.
* Provide verbal and written information to aid care planning activities and implement designated actions from care plans.
* Lead meetings to define care planning activities and evaluate evidence for assessment of need and care plan approaches.
* Communicate effectively in case conferences, planning meetings, discussions with clients/families, inter-agency personnel, and team members.
* Attend child protection meetings and, if required, give evidence in court in relation to care.
Requirements
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Social Work or a related field
* Relevant social work experience
* Registration with the appropriate regulatory body
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and procedures
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
* Understanding of child protection issues and risk assessment
* Willingness to challenge discrimination and inequality
* Ability to work within established protocols and negotiate expectations/roles in
Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Social Work or a related field Relevant social work experience Registration with the appropriate regulatory body Knowledge of relevant legislation and procedures Strong communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team Understanding of child protection issues and risk assessment Willingness to challenge discrimination and inequality Ability to work within established protocols and negotiate expectations/roles in