What's involved with this role: Reference no: Stockton on Tees 1004875614853841 Job Title: Childrens Social Care - Social Worker (Qualified) Pay rate: Up to £181.02 per day PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for approx. 4 to 6 months City: Stockton On Tees, TS18 1LD Enhanced DBS required for this role A Social Worker is needed within the Adolescent and Exploitation Service. It is essential that you have experience of supporting and providing interventions to children and young people suffering harm through exploitation. Key responsibilities: To undertake comprehensive assessments of need in conjunction with appropriate staff from other teams and/or agencies in accordance with agreed policies, procedures, and guidelines. To undertake and participate in risk assessments and risk management strategies, and to refer to other agencies where appropriate. To formulate and design appropriate Exploration Team Around the Child (ETAC) plans, to meet identified needs in line with agreed policies and budgetary provision. This will be in conjunction with the allocated Social Worker using the co-working model. Lead the investigation of allegations of significant harm to children in consultation with other professionals. Use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions. Make use of the best evidence from research to inform the complex judgements and decisions needed to support families and protect children from intra-familial and extra-familial harm. To ensure that individual professional standards are maintained, including full compliance with policy and procedural guidelines and accepting primary responsibility for the level and quality of casework recording. Maintain registration with Social Work England and adhere to the Social Work England standards of contact, performance and ethics, and standards for continuing professional development. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF 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. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: A recognised Social Work Qualification such as Degree in Social Work, DipSW or CQSW Registration with Social Work England Successfully undertaken or will successfully undertake the ASYE programme. Experience: Previous experience of supporting and providing interventions to children and young people suffering harm through exploitation. Supporting learning and development Partnership working Promoting a positive culture Customer focus Improving services Experience in developing care plans and implementing care packages. Proven assessment skills Use of policies and procedures in Social Work practice Knowledge of a range of social work theories relevant to the role Ability to maintain professional standards Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. AD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please