Family Support & Protection Team – Essex County Council - £38ph
* Position: Qualified Social Worker – Family Support & Protection
* Location: Chelmsford, Mid Essex
* Salary: £38ph
About the Role:
Children and Families is recognized as a service in which social work can develop and prosper, with a culture of collaboration, integrity and compassion; promoting development and wellbeing of children, young people and their families; protecting them from neglect and abuse. Working together with partners delivering a range of early help, family support and effective social work interventions which build resilience, remove barriers and enable children and young people to look forward to a brighter future.
Key Responsibilities:
* Assess complex social care needs and provide support to children and families.
* Develop support plans that gain commitment to solutions that enable the child, young person and family to build resilience and look forward to a brighter future.
* Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached.
* Work collaboratively, building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships and stakeholders and the voluntary sector, to assist children and their families and carers in gaining support.
* Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a child or young person and promote their welfare, including appropriate intervention as determined by need.
* Develop a child centered approach which enables early intervention and prevention and increases independence.
* Pro-actively influences in a range of inter-agency planning, decision making and case discussions.
* Communicate assessments and professional judgements clearly and succinctly both orally and in writing, including report writing and court statements.
* Work with families, communities and individuals to help people get the best start in life and age well, supporting strategic aims.
* Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:
* Your own dedicated specialist consultant
* Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organizations throughout the UK
* Prompt and reliable payroll
* Free DBS and compliance service
* £500 referral fee
For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on 07919 026892or Dylan.Nel@tripodpartners.co.uk
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