Consultant Social Worker – Family Safeguarding Team – Apsley

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Consultant Social Worker within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Apsley, Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Consultant Social Worker  job is up to £48,587 per annum.

Main duties:

• To undertake assessments of children in need in accordance with the Assessment Framework and Working Together and to ensure robust and timely care planning for children looked after. To ensure that initial and core assessments are completed to a high standard and within timescales.
• To demonstrate consistently high standards of practice that put the needs of children at the forefront of all activity.
• To ensure all children for whom the post holder is responsible have a clear care plan to promote their development, wellbeing and protect them from harm.
• To carry out other duties as defined by the Director of Children Services.
• To be responsible for accurately loading and updating the Service’s database with children and families details/status etc.
• To ensure the Service’s procedures for managing risk of significant harm to children are followed at all times, and to seek appropriate advice and authorisation from managers.
• To conduct care proceedings on behalf of the Service with appropriate guidance and authorisation. To ensure reports and statement for court, case conferences and looked after reviews are prepared to a high standards, in time for deadlines and evidence involvement of children, families and carers.
• To be able to represent children, young people, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies to access services.
• Advise children (age appropriate in child centred way), young people, families, carers, groups and individuals about independent advocacy that can best meet their needs.
• To play a leading role in improving practice and quality of assessments and care planning within the Team via mentoring assigned social work staff, leading team meeting discussions and workshops, taking responsibility for updating Team on practice developments and research findings, induction of new staff.
• Key tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post-holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post-holder and employees will be expected to carry out other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Consultant Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.