Social Worker – Assessment Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Assessment Team to work full time for Herefordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £38,223 per annum.

Main duties:

• To provide an assessment of needs of family members, their strengths and any risks to children’s health/development or significant harm to the children and develop SMART plans that will meet the needs of family members and reduce risks to children, in conjunction with children and their families.
• To work with partners to meet those needs and support progress via child in need and core group meetings involving families, young people and relevant professionals.
• To conduct child protection investigations where a multi-agency strategy discussion considers there are grounds to believe the child has or is likely to suffer significant harm and to involve families in developing plans for change which will reduce the risk of significant harm and keep children in their families wherever possible.
• Where children cannot be adequately cared for within their families or their families cannot be engaged to access services that would support them to change and the significant harm threshold is reached, to initiate discussions to seek agreement or initiate planned or emergency legal proceedings to ensure children are protected in line with departmental policy, procedures and relevant.
• Ensure that social work case records, assessments, plans and documentation for all children and young people or whom you are responsible are effectively maintained in line with practice standards and organisational policy and procedures.
• Manage effective communication of practice, service and organisational issues within the team and work collaboratively across other social work teams, services and with partners to provide high level integrated support to children and families.
• Ensure that in all aspects of work that the views, feelings and wishes of children, young people and their parents/carers are taken seriously and used to appropriately inform you assessment and decision making.
• Ensure that quality assurance activities are followed and to take an active role in promoting the voice of children, young people, their parents and carers.

Requirements of this role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.