Do you have experience in Children's services?
Do you want to be part of a welcoming and experienced team?
Or are looking to step up to be a Senior Social Worker?
Barnsley Council are looking to recruit a social worker to support their Children and Young People service. The contract will be for an initial 3-6 months with potential for extension subject to internal circumstance and performance.
Competitive rate of £40 per hour available.
Responsible for :
* Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy, and guidance
* Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally.
* Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
* Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people, and their parents / carers where the parents / carers cannot care for them.
* Maintain up to date, accurate and high-quality records of activity on cases.
* Participate in a range of planning and decision-making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews
* Write court reports and give evid...
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