Part Time Social Work Assistant - London, United Kingdom - London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Part time

Description

Vacancy Description

Title:

Part Time Social Work Assistant

Service Area/School:

Childrens Services (excl Schools)
Children's Social Care & Safeguarding

About Us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

This vacancy is in the Family Support and Child Protection Team.

This role is responsible for providing practical support for client.

This includes co-ordinating aspects of care packages, recognising where social work input is required and supporting clients to make informed decisions.

To be involved in the process of Care Management under the overall responsibility of the Team Manager and other colleagues. To work to provide a sensitive, responsive and appropriate response to individual service users and their carers.

About the Role:

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Carry case Responsibility for children, young people and their families; provide advice, support and co -ordinate support packages as set out in care plan; contribute to assessments of social worker(s) responsible for cases.

Arrange or provide transport / escort for service users e

g to health appointments, education:

provide practical support to families and to young people formerly looked after by the Authority seeking to live independently in the community.

Undertake tasks to support case-holding social - workers including work with looked after children and those on the child protection register.

Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning.

Liaise with colleagues in own and other departments and external agencies in order to gather information relevant to assessment and care planning activities.

Maintain and update case notes and other records; write reports and give evidence in court on factual matters if required.

Job Activities:

Assisting Senior Social Workers / Social Workers in the process of assessment for those service users with complex needs.

Undertaking assessments where needs are clearly defined and arrange appropriate Care Plans.

Participating in the Child Care Duty system under the overall supervision of Duty Senior and to refer onto alternative sources of advice or assistance.

Participating in the process of implementation, monitoring and review, within Divisional guidelines, of Care

Plans and initiate appropriate action as required.

Operating within Directorate stated Principles, Polices and Guidelines including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and the Complaints Procedure.

Participating in the development and implementation of group work.

Maintaining records, undertake reports in accordance with directorate policy and practice.

Working flexible hours in order to meet the needs of service users and carers.

To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as may be required.
Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.

For an informal discussion about the role please contactWe reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Educated to a good standard in the English language verbal and written.

Relevant qualification eg child care/health and social care/youth work (SWA Pioneer role) commit to undertake training in Collaborative Problem Solving methods.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers.

The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit.

We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload.

Additional Information
This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council's existing employees. The Council's Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.

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