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Qualified Social Worker / Advanced Practitioner
Family Support & Protection
Location: North West
Pay rate: £40 per hour
We are looking for experienced and passionate Advanced Practitioner Social Workers to join a dedicated Family Support & Protection Team. As part of this Local Authority's Family Support & Protection Service, you will have a passion for making a difference to children. The Family Support Team manages a mixed caseload of children on the Child Protection Register, children requiring Care and Support, and Children in Care Proceedings. This role has been created through significant investment to add capacity and build resilience and stability. As a Social Worker within this local authority, you will benefit from a manageable workload, excellent support, and ample time to spend with children and young people.
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 will make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills, you will establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You will be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable outcomes of your interventions. Using best practices, you will strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly, you will have a passion for supporting children and their families to thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to operate as efficiently as possible.
Perfect candidate will be:
* Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
* SW, CSS, DipSW or Social Work Degree; creative, flexible, and forward-thinking in approach.
* Experience working in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
* Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families.
* Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
* Experience working with a range of client groups within an agency.
* Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
* Committed to providing high-quality services to service users.
* Experience working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency environment.
* Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice.
* 4+ 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 caseload.
* Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimal outcomes for service users.
* Devise individual care plans, considering diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
* Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to aid their development.
This is an agency post, and Pertemps can offer you:
* Dedicated consultant with access to roles across the UK, available for support.
* Easy registration process, referral schemes, incentives, ongoing compliance management, prompt payroll, and more.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If this role isn't suitable, contact us about other opportunities including IRO, BIA, MASH, Children in Need, Duty and Assessment, Child Protection, Children Looked After, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Neighbourhood, Hospital Discharge, Family Support, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager, and Assistant Team Manager.
This role is ideally located for those traveling from Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Trafford, Ashton-under-Lyne, Macclesfield, Warrington, Wigan, Huddersfield, St Helens, Widnes, Altrincham, Middleton, Urmston, Irlam, Stretford, Eccles, Salford, Stockport, Longsight, Bradford, Chester, Runcorn, Wirral, Rochdale, Liverpool, Skelmersdale, Cheadle, Leigh, Blackburn, Preston, Partington, Manchester, Openshaw, Northwich, Ellesmere Port, Tameside, Birkenhead, and Wythenshawe.
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