Qualified Social Worker

Qualified Social Worker
Project Special Guardianship Assessments
Location: West Midlands
Pay rate:  £33 per hour

We are looking for experienced and passionate Social Workers to join a dedicated Project Special Guardianship Assessments Team. You will be supported by an experienced team manager.  You will be working in a busy and supportive team in order to complete thorough evaluations conducted by a local authority to determine the suitability of a potential special guardian, ensuring they can adequately meet the child's needs and provide a stable, loving home. 
 
Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Experience working within, Court, Children in Need and Child Protection.
• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
• 3 Years plus Qualified

In this role you will:

• 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.
  • Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or wellbeing of children at risk of abuse or neglect.
  • Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children, adults and families as appropriate, including intervention when information or circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers.
  • Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention.
  • Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity. For example, working with people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities or diminished capacity.
  • 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.
  • Act as Practice Educators for social work qualifying course students in practice placements (as appropriate) or Assessor for Newly Qualified Social Workers completing their ASYE.
  • Working with communities, families and individuals to maximise or promote their personal strengths, social networks and resources.
  • Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students and newly qualified social workers, as and when required.
  
  

 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

 
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Nottingham, Walsall, Newark on Trent, Loughbourgh, Leicester, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Lincoln, Nuneaton, Granthon, Derby, Peterbourgh, Birmingham, Bloxwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth,  Coventry,  Newcastle-under-lyme, Burton-upon-Trent, Wolverhampton, Lichfeild, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Sutton, Coldfield, WestBromwich, Walsall, Lichfield, Telford, Hinckley. Royal Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Stratford upon Avon, Rugby, Bedworth, Warwick, Worcester, Banbury, Northampton.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, Localities, Children in Need. Child Protection, Court,  Educational Psychologist,  Hospital Discharge, Community,  Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Adults Assessment and Care Delivery, Occupational Therapist, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.