Social Work Team Co-ordinator - London, United Kingdom - Recroot Ltd

Recroot Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Recroot are looking for a Social Work Team Coordinator to join the Children's Social Care team based with Islington Council.

This is starting asap

14 hours a week

ongoing contract

Key responsibilities

Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person's / vulnerable adults in the care of the service, including undertaking regular Child Protection training at a level commensurate with role.
Create, maintain and improve administrative systems to enable the service to meet its aims of delivering a high quality service to children and families.
Work pro-actively and co-operatively within the service to ensure that timely and accurate information about activity and performance is produced and collated as required, and maintain statistical information to agreed deadlines and a high level of accuracy.
Develop and maintain good working relationships with other teams within Children's Social Care, other Council departments and clients referred to the service.
Deal sensitively with enquiries or telephone messages, logging calls accurately and alerting social work staff or managers immediately to any issues requiring immediate attention.
Use appropriate databases, Microsoft Office and other ICT systems to produce reports, spreadsheets and other documents as required supporting the service and assist others in the use of information technology systems when required.
Follow guidelines to produce standard written or electronic responses to enquiries from family members or professionals to tight deadlines.
Undertake support tasks on projects as required.
Provide an effective diary-management function for social workers in order to effectively manage meetings, visits, etc. 10. Undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post.