Social Worker-children - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Day Webster

Day Webster
Day Webster
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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A consultant social worker is required to provide cover for an extended period in Liverpool Early Help.

The Consultant Social Worker will be responsible for triaging referrals for Early Help support, reviewing the level of need and ensuring clear allocationplans are created at the point of allocating referrals for Early Help assessments.

Where cases are reviewed and felt to require statutory children's services assessment then the consultant social worker will liaise with the team manager and ensure that referralsare progressed along the appropriate pathway.

The consultant social worker will manager a team of 5 Outreach Family Support workers and will complete regular good quality supervision, provide robust management oversight and ensure that the child/young person is receiving interventions that are helpingto improve their outcomes.

The role involves quality assurance of Early Help assessments and plans and driving forward practice improvements.

The aim of Early Help is to target provision at the most complex families who are on the cusp of entering social care, to reduce risk and need and to prevent cases escalating to social care.

Workers will take a strength based approach informed by Signs of Safetyand knowledge of this model and of using Liquid Logic would be of benefit.

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