Social Work Coordinator - Leek, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment Ltd

Akton Recruitment Ltd

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Leek, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Islington Council

Akton recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Social Work Coordinator to join the admin team at the Islington Council.

Job Role - Social Work Coordinator
The Children Looked After teams are well resourced and enjoy a stable and supportive workforce.

You will be joining a multi-professional team made up of experienced managers, Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Young Person Advisors, Mental Health Social Worker, CAMHS professionals, a UASC specialist and Social Work Coordinators.

Islington ChildrenSocial Care was rated by OFSTED as Outstanding in March 2020 and in October 2023 our service received a focused visit from OFSTED looking at the Local Authority's arrangements for care experienced children and young people (care leavers).

Exceptional and aspirational corporate and operational leaders work together to listen to care experienced young people, to understand their world and to act on their views.
Islington's motivational practice model ensures that all staff and many partneragencies provide traumainformed assessments.
The genuine warmth of staff and their affection and pride in children's progress and achievements are evident in their direct work and frequent contact and visits.
Staff report that they feel valued by their managers. This improves and supports practitioners'emotional health and wellbeing.
Skilled social workers and YPAs are appropriately proud of their work.
Good opportunities for development, training and promotion are increasing the number of staff transferring from agency to permanent contracts.
A localised approach to commissioning housing support means that young people can maintain local links and have access to important local services, such as colleges, employment and training opportunities that will support them to achieve independence. Islington'sChildren's Social Care has significantly developed our practice model to help vulnerable children, young people and their families to make meaningful and sustainable changes in their lives.

Social Work Coordinator (SWC) is a para-professional whose primary function is to provide enhanced administrative support in meeting the demands of frontline practice.

This practical support is critical in ensuring the child and family social worker's timeis used to best effect in helping families to keep children safe.

This requires a high level of understanding of a child and family social worker's job in helping families to safeguard children.

SWC are the first point of contact for the team by service users,other staff and professionals.

As an experienced administrator the SWC is expected to anticipate the planning and preparation necessary ahead of the range of meetings that take place with families and professionals and be instrumental in ensuring these meetingsare coordinated.

The SWC is also expected to help the social workers they support stay organised in managing their workload.

They manage the team calendar, which shows all meetings for the team so they will be able to help social workers prioritise their tasks,they also provide the teams performance reports to managers and workers and maintain records of workers caseloads.

Child and family social work is dynamic and responsive to both the local and national landscape, and the SWC must be flexible also adapt to changeswithin the organisation and to the presenting needs of the individual team.