- A Social Work degree or equivalent, . CQSW, DipSW (with specialism in children's services), and hold two years recent post-qualification experience of working in a statutory setting including Safeguarding, Court and Pre-proceeding work.
- A proven experience of coordinating multi-agency work to support children using formal outcome focused plans, and experience of applying an evidence-based approach to practice, such as the Signs of Safety approach.
- An in-depth knowledge and ability to apply relevant policies appropriate legislation government guidance and best practice in all aspects of social work including LSCB procedures – with specific awareness of the Fostering Regulations and guidance.
- An awareness of the cultural, racial, linguistic and religious background of children, young people and families and how to build effective responses into service delivery. You will need to comprehensively assess, anticipate, and support carers to manage risk, developing child focused therapeutic parenting skills to achieve positive outcomes for children to remain within their birth family – where-ever safe to do so.
- A proven ability to communicate (both verbally and written using Microsoft Office and database applications relevant to the department) thoughtfully, confidently and with purpose across all levels of service users (including children, young people, parents/carers, colleagues and other multi-agencies and professionals), sustaining engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities.
- Have comprehensive knowledge of the factors and influences which can impact on families and children achieving positive outcomes including child development, attachment and neglect, and parental factors such as substance misuse domestic abuse and mental health.
- Use your initiative, be able to prioritise, and offer flexibility to manage competing workloads and deadlines to ensure effective team working, with an ability to travel to locations throughout the County (and where needed across the country) working outside of office hours when required
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Assessing Social Worker - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield , Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £29,784 - £36,660 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: Full time 37 Hours and Part time 22 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 18th June 2024
Interview Date(s): 3rd July 2024
About the Role
The Kinship Assessment Team has two vacancies for a full time and part time (3 days per week) experienced assessing social worker committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our children to have the opportunity to remain in the care of their birth family (where-ever safe to do so) – through the completion of comprehensive and analytical Friends and Family assessments (both initial viability assessments and the full Form C Kinship/SGO assessments).
We are recruiting social workers who have at least 2 years statutory social work experience including safeguarding, direct work and the completion of high quality assessments. Our team are committed to creating a safe, compassionate and reflective environment demonstrated through relationship based practice built on trust, respect, support and empathy. We achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a conscious effort to know and understand people, and by providing hope for growth and recovery.
We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and their families. In return we can offer flexible working, supportive and approachable manager, continued professional development, as a great team who are welcoming and encouraging.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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:
Rebecca Allen - Team 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.
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