Social Worker - Harlow, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment Ltd

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Social Worker - Children in Care

Permanent, Full Time

£32,700 to £45,00 per annual - pay award pending
**Location: Harlow

  • West Essex**Akton recruitment are currently working with a Local Authority in Essex who are looking to recruit an experienced Social Worker to join their team. This is a great opportunity for a permanent position.

Here in Essex, we continue to raise the bar about practice and our investment in our workforce is second to none.

It's an exciting time to join us. Not only have we been named Outstanding by Ofsted, we are delighted and at the same time humbled to have beencrowned Social Work Employer of the Year for the second time in the last three years

The Team

Our Children in Care team in West Essex are a very supportive and creative team where everyone looks after each other.

Our experienced and available managers prioritise providing high quality and regular, reflective supervision and support to all our socialworkers as well as adhoc and informal support on a day-to-day basis.

We also have reflective supervision on cases and consider particular dilemmas on cases. Essex County Council practices social work from a systemic perspective and promotes, strengths based,relationship based and trauma informed practice.

The Essex Social Care Academy (ESCA) provides outstanding training opportunities for all Social Workers' and you will have the opportunity to access high quality training and development opportunities.

Children in Care teams work with children and young people up to the age of 18 who are in care
- they're unable to live at home and are either placed with a foster carer or live in residential homes. They work with children and young people to ensure their experiencesin care is a good one and that the work undertaken prepares them for their transition into leaving care or return home to family. The CIC teams receive cases in proceedings after the first hearing, they visit children and young people in placement, developpermanency plans which include Special Guardianship Order (SGO) and adoption, undertake life-story work to enable a child to understand the reasons for being in care and also support children to return home to birth family.

What you'll need to join our Social Work teams
*A diploma or degree in social work, CQSW, CSS or equivalent.
*Registration with Social Work England as registered Social Worker.
*Demonstrable capability of practice in accordance with current professional standards e.g. Professional Capability Framework (PCF), Knowledge & Skills Statement (KSS).
*Case recording.
*A good working knowledge and ability to use information technology and related systems e.g. Word, SW case recording systems.
*Required to work flexibly as required, including evenings and weekends if necessary.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency.

Driving licence and car or the abilityto meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.
Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.


What you should do next

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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