What's involved with this role: Interim Social Worker – CIC Reference no: Cambridge (HQ) CCC17596 Pay rate: £30.77 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3 months City: ELY, Cambridgeshire Hybrid working, minimum of 2 days in the office per week Enhanced DBS required for this role A Social Worker is required to work within the CIC team. CIC experience is essential for this role. Provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of vulnerable children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines. Work in partnership with families using the Family Safeguarding model, taking a strengths-based approach to assess need, plan and deliver focused interventions to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes. Key responsibilities: Undertake statutory requirements such as statutory visits, CIC reviews, completing Care Plans and Pathway Plans. Consider risk and manage this. Safeguarding and good quality planning around transition, reunification and permanence. Provide professional leadership, specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations, in which risk of significant harm, ambiguity or complexity is greatest. Through the intervention of assessment, identify and respond to needs, build on strengths, ensuring that analysis is robust and leads to clear outcomes that can be met through appropriate SMART plans. Demonstrate good analytical, interviewing and observational skills, to ensure the voice of the child is heard and is used to inform all assessments, decision making and interventions. Using the Family Safeguarding model, engage with children, young people, and their families to develop effective and empowering working relationships which facilitate change and improve outcomes for children and young people. Ensure legislation and statutory guidance is adhered to and challenge decisions where appropriate. Act as the lead professional and ensure all matters in respect of safeguarding are dealt with promptly, effectively and in line with child protection procedures and escalated as necessary. Demonstrate sound written skills through the provision of coherent, analytical and evidence-based reports and plans for a variety of forums, including court, which are child focussed and reflect the impact of the child’s lived experience. Work in partnership with children, young people and their families to ensure that all interventions are proportionate and timely, that people are protected from harm, and that their human rights are promoted. 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. 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: Recognised professional Social Work qualification (Degree/Masters/Post Graduate Diploma/Social Work fast track qualifying programme). Relevant specialist post qualifying and or post graduate training desirable. Current Social Work England registration. Car driver with full UK licence. Ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide. Experience: Must have CIC experience. Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating and implementing effective social work interventions in partnership with children and families. Experience of recording, summarising, analysing and evaluating complex information. Experience of social work with children and families, building effective helping relationships and overcoming challenges in doing so. Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team or alongside multi-agency colleagues desirable. Knowledge: Proven knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors. Knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance, and procedures. Knowledge of key children’s agencies. Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to racism, discrimination and equality of opportunity. Skills & Abilities: Ability to maintain high quality records, writing clear, concise, child-centred reports and plans. Ability to create a rapport and build relationships with children/young people and their families using a person centred, strengths-based approach. Ability to prioritise tasks, be accountable for managing own caseload and work to tight deadlines and targets Excellent communication and negotiation skills including the ability to deal with complex issues in a sensitive and appropriate manner. Commitment to and understanding of anti-racist, anti-discriminatory social work practice. Ability to positively challenge discrimination and oppressive behaviours. Ability to thrive in a complex, fast paced and demanding environment. Ability to lead, chair or participate in a range of multi-disciplinary meetings. Ability to work as part of a team, using own initiative and sharing expertise and experience with others. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). 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. Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support. SC 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