-Qualified Social Worker - Advanced/Senior Practitioner

Qualified Social Worker
Advanced/Senior Practitioner 
Children and Families
Location: West Midlands
Pay rate:  £33.88

Are you dedicated to high quality, relationship-based social work, that is child-centred, family-minded, strengths and evidence-based and focused on delivering positive outcomes?  We are looking for experienced and passionate Advanced/Senior Practitioner  Qualified Social Workers to join a dedicated Children and Families  Team. Our Client has positions available in their Children and Families  team based with a local authority in the West Midlands. You will be supported by an experienced team manager.  Our client has a strong and positive culture in this West Yorkshire local authority, which we would love you to be a part of.  We offer regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision.
 
We are looking for qualified Children and Families Social Workers, ideally with experience in safeguarding and children in our care, who can undertake varied and diverse case management and exceptional quality assessments in a timely accurate manner, allowing for progression opportunities to be able to develop and grow their career from Newly Qualified Social Worker to Senior Social Worker and Team Manager.  Along with providing with a child centred approach and using the skills and tools to work restoratively with families. If you’re looking for a challenging yet rewarding role, one where you’ll be supported every step of the way, this Council is the place for you. 

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.

• Supporting child and families subject CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings and court proceedings 

• Understand factors that impact children including abuse and neglect 

• Undertake Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision making, planning and review 
• Undertake effective direct work with children and families 

• 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.
• 2 Years plus Qualified

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.

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,  Shropshire, Coventry,  Worcester, Telford, Stafford, Sheffield, Welshpool, Hereford, Leicester, Sheffield, Wrexham Newcastle-under-lyme, Burton-upon-Trent, Wolverhampton, Lichfeild, Solihull, Stoke, Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Sutton, Coldfield, West Bromwich, Walsall, Lichfield, Telford, Hinckley.

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, Family Support Children in Need, Duty and Assessment, Child Protection, Educational Psychologist, Children Looked After, Early Intervention,  Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager, Advanced Practioner and Assistant Team Manager.
 
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