Consultant Social Worker – Family Safeguarding Team

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 Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Consultant Social Worker job is up to £50,512per 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 operate within a performance framework and to strive to improve personal performance and meet identified development targets.
• To use the Service’s electronic communications system, database, spreadsheets, word processing packages and templates competently and promote the use of IT within the Team. To ensure a high standard of electronic social care recording for all children. 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 standard, in time for deadlines and evidence involvement of children, families (including absent fathers) and carers.
• Be able to represent children, young people, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies to access services.
• Challenge injustice, discrimination and lack of access to services.
• 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.
• Co-working cases with social workers as required and accompanying them to court.
• This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post-holder and employees will be expected to carry out such other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

Requirements of this Consultant Social Worker role:

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

Contact:
This Consultant Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.