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- Ability to undertake timely, proportionate, and child-centred assessments of need and of risk, applying a robust threshold and demonstrating good analytical skills to support the right outcomes for children and young people.
- Extensive experience and understanding of the importance of multi-agency working and the differing roles, responsibilities, remit and functions of other parts of the wider service and agencies.
- The ability to communicate clearly and accurately, both orally and in writing, with a wide range of people, including representatives from other agencies, using skills of negotiation and persuasion. Have good IT skills, including Microsoft Outlook and Word, and database applications.
- Excellent demonstration of the ability to prioritise effectively across a wide range of competing demands to meet deadlines. Time management skills and the ability to respond flexibly to changing requirements.
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Social Worker-Screening - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: First Response Screening and First Response Assessment Team, County Hall Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £33,060 - £40,083 per annum plus market supplement of £3,283 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week & 18.5 hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 24th May 2024
Interview Date(s): 3rd/4th June 2024
Here at Leicestershire County Council, we have exciting opportunities available for experienced Social Workers who can start imminently if appointed, to work in the fast-paced environment of a Duty and Assessment Team. We have a few positions in either the Screening team or Assessment Team. If you like variety and a challenge, then no day is ever the same in our Service These are exciting opportunities to be part of a diverse and highly skilled team and we are looking for passionate, dedicated, and flexible Social Workers to join us.
We are seeking someone who can support us providing the right service at the right time for Children and Young People and promote positive outcomes. You will demonstrate commitment to a trauma informed approach, engaging with children, young people, and families to capture their voice and lived experiences and be able to make a robust analysis and clear recommendations to ensure a timely response and support meaningful and sustainable change. Strength-based approaches will be at the heart of your practice and strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to this role to support relationships with your peers and the children, young people, and families that you will work with. You will show creativity, innovation, and passion in your work and this will be evident in your written work which will be written to the child.
The successful candidate will work across the service as needed but will predominantly be based in either the Screening or Assessment Team. Within the service, we have opportunities to be part of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion panel and champion in areas of interest to support inclusivity and equality in the staff group as well as for the children, young people, and families that we work with. You will have monthly reflective supervision, team meetings and pod meetings to support your well-being and professional development.
About the Role
We are looking for:
Our Screening and Assessment Teams are friendly and supportive, with regular supervision and our employees have manageable workloads. The Screening Team consists of Social Workers, Senior Practitioners and Team Managers, responding to incoming worries from professionals and members of the public over the telephone and online. The Assessment Team has five pods with Team Managers, Senior Practitioners and Social Workers. The teams hold daily/weekly briefs to drive throughput and performance to promote timeliness and ensure best possible outcomes for families are achieved. We provide a comprehensive induction package with ongoing access to bespoke learning and development opportunities. This includes tailored continuous professional development sessions and access to academic research and practice expertise to develop skills, experience and inform our employee's practice.
At Leicestershire we are passionate about supporting you in your social worker career and we can provide opportunities to develop your career with us. We value staff well-being and have a strong offer and accessible support available in this respect. We offer hybrid working, which is balanced with service need, demands and delivery.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Lorna Nolan, Assistant Service Manager
Telephone:
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .
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