Social Worker – Child Protection & Family Support

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Child Protection & Family Support Team to work full time based in Glamorgan.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,890 per annum.

Main duties:

• Responsible for undertaking social work on allocated cases producing outcome based plans, having regard to the needs of, and risks to, children and their families
• To develop effective relationships with children, young people and their families to improve impact of work and determine the level of service available ensuring written plans are agreed with the CYP and their families and reflect their views
• To determine, using evidence-based practice how these needs will be met subject to resources, statutory responsibilities, within the frameworks of council policies and procedures
• To be responsible for effective Individual Performance in line with national standards and performance indicators, including receiving regular supervision
• Responsible for participating in routine auditing activity across the service to secure the highest possible standards of social work practice and record keeping and to act in accordance with requirments of the Quality Assurance Framework
• To ensure that the needs of service users/carers from all equalities issues in all aspects of work. To ensure access to translation and interpretation services as necessary
• To complete financial assessments and, where appropriate, to determine contributions and levels of need/service
• With the agreement of the Social Work Team Manager, to identify resources required and available to promote child/family wellbeing
• To develop and maintain effective working relationships at voluntary, community, schools, police, health other statutory agencies/local resource networks and internal partners
• To maintain, monitor and review accurate records of all work undertaken ensuring recording information is accurate and up to date, including comprehensive use of the Integrated Children’s System
• To provide cover for ten work of other team members and undertake projects and other additional duties commensurate with the level of the job (The nature of these will vary according to experience, competencies, and the grade of the post)

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• A social work qualification or equivalent
• Understanding of relevant legislation
• Continual professional development
• Social Work England registered

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.