Senior Social Worker Children in Need Team - Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom - Social Work Partners

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About The Role


Communicating and engaging with children, young people and their families, with colleagues and with communities.

  • Work directly with children, young people and families using the Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing framework.
  • Where the role requires, to act as Lead Professional for named families, being the key contact with the family and liaising with other professionals to provide a joinedup response.

Assessment, Planning and Review

  • Use Suffolk signs of safety principles, disciplines and tools.
  • To participate in CAF, multiagency assessment, Statutory Assessment and other relevant assessment processes and offer management oversight where required.

Effective Practice

  • To work alongside children, young people, parents and families where there are early signs of social, emotional, health or behavioural issues to bring about sustainable improvement.
  • To undertake direct observation of practice, with effective feedback to offer quality assurance.
  • To obtain user feedback and involvement to improve service delivery.
  • Work within the service guidelines, statutory guidance and legal frameworks.
  • To respond to needs identified with the family by identifying and delivering evidencebased interventions as required.
  • To work with families with complex problems as lead professional as the role requires.
  • To support colleagues and partners to develop evidenced based practice.
  • Where the role requires, to have responsibility for effective supervision, PDR and mentoring of colleagues.
  • To offer consultation to support colleagues with complex cases where required.

Reporting and Accurate Recording

  • To maintain up to date records and data using electronic devices and systems and provide reports for a range of audiences.
  • Offer management oversight on prepared reports where required by the role.
  • Provide regular data analysis with trends and forecasts to support service delivery.
  • To oversee successful completion of Quality Assurance processes within team.

Information, Advice and Signposting


To provide information and signposting for children, young people and families to relevant universal and specialist services in the local area and beyond where appropriate.

Have an understanding of information and advice available to the service user and encourage colleagues and partners to engage.


Multi-Agency and Partnership Working
Actively build relationships and networks with other professional groups and services in the locality.


To actively work in partnership with other professional groups to deliver a holistic service to children, young people and families.

To offer service representation at meetings where required.

Undertake appropriate referrals to partner agencies.


Managing Risk and Safeguarding

  • To identify and effectively manage risk and safeguarding concerns and escalate where required.
  • Where required provide management oversight/supervision of risk and safeguarding.
  • To undertake other tasks allocated by manager or senior colleagues, in keeping with the responsibilities of the grade:
  • Work in accordance with the Council's statutory responsibilities, policies and service procedures and comply with equality and diversity policies, procedures and legislation.
  • Maintaining customer confidentiality in accordance with the Data Protection Act and SCC guidance, including responding to any known data breaches.
  • Engage in individual and group supervision with managers and practice leads, performance appraisal and consultation as required.
  • Where required provide effective individual and group supervision, including performance agreements.
  • Having regard to best value principles and monitoring within your area of responsibility.
  • Participating and coordinating, training and development opportunities, in order to improve knowledge, skills and effectiveness of self and colleagues.
  • To transport children and young people where required by job role.
  • To work in the homes of children and families and in a variety of other settings.


Although this list provides examples of what you will be doing it's not intended to be exhaustive and you will have personal objectives linked to our People Plans and Strategies that will be discussed and agreed with your line manager when you start.

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