Interim Advanced/Senior Practitioner x3 - Childrens Services
Reference no: Stoke on Trent 5246821
Pay Rate: £25.10 per hour PAYE
37 Monday to Friday, 08:30 – 17:00
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: STOKE ON TRENT
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Aspirational and dynamic qualified Children and Families Social Workers, who are interested in engaging the children in care in varied and diverse direct work to support them to achieve their permanency plan. Responsible for completing your statutory duties in co ordinating children’s plans, whilst ensuring they are individual to the child’s needs and aspirational in respect of focus, supporting children to engage with their plans and achieve the very best outcomes.
Well supported, not only by team coordinators who support you with various administrative tasks, but also by an established and experienced management team. This will afford you opportunities to engage in direct work with your allocated children, to develop restorative relationships and to support children to understand their journey.Work alongside the Contact Service, to promote family time, with parents, siblings and significant people for the children in care, ensuring that children develop strong networks of support as they transition towards independent living.
Key responsibilities:
* Manage complex cases, ensuring that the welfare of the child or young person is paramount at all times.
* Carry out assessments and manage child care plans within government and departmental prescribed timescales and standards, as required by the Team and/or Principal Manager.
* Ensure that children, young people and their families are fully involved in the process of assessment.
* Ensure that service user records are maintained in accordance with departmental procedures.
* Ensure that the departments and authority’s resources are deployed efficiently and effectively at all times.
* Responsible for the allocation of appropriate tasks to ASYEs, Apprentices and Social Work Assistants and to provide for the necessary support and guidance necessary for the completion of those tasks.
* Undertake more complex case work.
* Provide mentoring and support to others and support group supervision as required by the Team Manager.
* Responsible for effective time management and responding flexibly to the needs of the service.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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