Interim Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Children’s Mental Health
Reference no: Sheffield TCL 0008 9658 / 1
Pay Rate: £28.24 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 - 17:00
This opening assignment is for 4 months
City: SHEFFIELD
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Children’s Advanced Social Work Practitioner to join a new and innovative team specialising in children’s mental health. Support children and young people who have complex mental health issues, both at home, in placements and within specialist mental health hospitals.
Ensure that there is a robust safety and care plan in place, that keeps the child/young person at the centre. Develop care plans in collaboration with the family and specialist agencies involved in the case, such as CAMHS, NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Group and specialist hospitals.
Key Responsibilities
* Manages a workload of the most complex cases which includes looked after children, child protection and assessment of carers.
* Have an increased level of autonomy and decision making, based on experience and knowledge, around the cases allocated and report to an Assistant Service Manager on the progress of those cases.
* In managing cases:
o Carry out assessment and investigations into cases involving significant harm, child protection or assessment of carers and compile reports to case conferences, courts/statutory panels in accordance with statutory procedures and best practice.
o Adhere to statutory legislation and service priorities.
o Implement, monitor and review plans relating to the assessed need of children and young people, their families and carers.
o Chair some practice meetings in order to ensure the regular review of plans and make any necessary amendments.
o Produce assessments of need for children and young people in line with statutory regulations and ensure that services are available to meet those needs.
o Undertake statutory supervision and care planning in relation to children who are looked after.
o Maintain up to date records of cases using management information systems.
* Act as a Practice Teacher to students on placement.
* Co-work difficult cases with the allocated Social Worker to allow less experienced staff to benefit from the expertise and experience of an Advanced Practitioner were they have available capacity.
* Maintain performance and develop practice and experience in line with personal targets as agreed with the Senior Fieldwork Manager through supervision.
* Contribute to the achievement of Key Performance Indicators identified through service planning.
* Work to the prescribed quality standards for service provision set out by the service for all workers.
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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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