Social Worker

Warwickshire - SW

£38,000 - £50,000 Per Annum

Full Time

Permanent

Warwickshire, Warwickshire

Social Care

Posted 11 hours ago

Expires In 29 Days

Job Description

Social Worker required for a Family Help Team in Support & Intervention.

Role Purpose
To provide services to children & families across Warwickshire

Role Responsibility

Responsibility for children and young people who are the subjects of Child Protection Plans

Responsibility for children and young people who are looked after by the Local Authority.
Responsibility for children and young people who are the subjects of Child in Need plans
Attendance at meetings, including Child Protection conferences, strategy meetings and legal meetings.
Preparation of court reports, statutory review and child protection reports.
Undertaking S47 investigations
Some court work S7 and S37
Participation in the duty system, including undertaking

Main Task

To provide an outcome focussed children’s Social Work service in line with Social WorkEngland’s

Standards.
To work within legislative frameworks and the local authority’s policies and procedures in providing a children’s Social Work Service.
To take responsibility for planning and actively participating in supervision in order to ensurethat
Social Work Practice is underpinned by line manager accountability recognising the need for
increased supervisions to manage highly complex cases
Undertaking S47 investigations
Hold Child protection/ CIC caseloads in line with skills and ability
Some Court work such as S7 and S37
To maintain and facilitate professional working relationships with partner agencies and others for the delivery of services.
Take a key worker role in responding to safeguarding vulnerable children and familieswith
managerial oversight for strategy meetings conferences and review, where appropriate.
Ensure that all recording of social work activity is carried out in accordance with policy and
procedures with due regard to data protection.
Contribute to the professional development of colleagues e.g. mentoring, coaching or where
appropriate “practice assessing”

Benefits