Social Work Co-ordinator - London, United Kingdom - Islington Council

Islington Council

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Islington's Children'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.

We have transformed the way we offer help by using Motivational Practice (MP) as a foundational approach to practice, which is grounded in Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles and trauma-informed practice.

This means we are working more purposefully and collaboratively with our service users to help them achieve their goals.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a motivated, driven, professional workforce who are focused on improving the life experiences of children in need, children in need of protection and Looked After Children.

A 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 time is 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 meetings are 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 changes within the organisation and to the presenting needs of the individual team.

The SWC role, as with all other roles in the Service, should engage in continuous quality improvement by always looking for ways to improve the way we work to identify gaps in systems and make improvements that will increase added value to frontline practice.

Excellent organisation and time management skills
Ability to work proactively to identify and meet the needs of the team
Flexibility
Excellent ICT skills
Good communication
Ability to work under pressure

Closing date:
Tuesday 3rd January 2023 at 23:59

Interview date:
Week commencing Monday 16th January 2023

Our children, young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do. Islington Children Social Care was rated by OFSTED as Outstanding in March 2020. 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.

The Independent Futures Service is well resourced and enjoys a stable and supportive workforce.

We take pride in providing a learning environment where staff can develop and our controlled caseloads, safe working practices, a culture of strong supervision and excellent training opportunities enable a supportive working environment for all staff.

Please ensure you address the person specification fully, referencing how you meet each specification in turn as fully as possible.

Islington's Children's Social Care is developing practice to help vulnerable children, young people and their families to make meaningful and sustainable change in their lives.

We are transforming the way we offer help by using Motivational Social Work (MSW) as a foundational approach to practice, which is grounded in Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles.

This means we are working more purposefully and collaboratively with our service users to help them achieve their goals.

A 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 time is 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 from other staff, service users and other 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 or other professionals.

The SWC is also expected to help th