Social Worker Children and Family’s Team

Seven Social Care is looking for a qualified Social Worker, Children and Families team, to fill an exclusive opportunity specialising in the wellbeing of children and families across Newton Abbot in Devon.

The role:

As a Level 3 Social Worker You will be required to undertake meaningful, direct work with children and their families. The caseload will include varying degrees of court work.

To safeguard children including those at significant risk of harm, assess and manage risk and undertaken critical decision making including taking professional responsibility for decision making

Contribute to the provision of Social Care Services in the Community and other settings.

Provide an effective Social Work service including assessment, case planning and reviews.

Operate a Social Work service within departmental policy, practice and procedures

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users.

To provide a Social Work service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct therapeutic work, care planning and management. Be able to integrate a theoretical approach with practice

Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision making in line with professional criteria and making sure that case work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed.

Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organisational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, multiple significant risk factors, and the need to take into account the public interest.

Ensure appropriate care for service users ensuring the best use of existing mainstream and specialist resources, and demonstrating innovation with these resources where appropriate.

Accept responsibility for and supervision of service users who are provided with care services and undertake expert and robust review of such cases. Provide expert witness and give evidence to court and other relevant bodies as required, including giving evidence in court in proceedings, and including the presentation of reports and applications for appropriate Legal Orders.

Rate of Pay:- £44.00 per hour plus an additional £150.00 allowance for expenses.

Applicant Requirements:

• Qualifications: Degree approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Experience: 2+ years working with children as a qualified Social Worker in the UK.
• Compliance: Up to date HCPC registration and DBS.
• Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.
• Hours: 37.5 hours p/w.

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