Social Worker, Safe & Supported Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Safe & Supported Team to work full time based in North Tyneside.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £43,516 per annum.

Main duties:

• Manage a statutory caseload relevant to skills and experience in negotiation with the Team Manager.
• Ability to undertake duties in a timely way, in accordance with statutory frameworks provided in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018. This may include urgent action where a child is in need of immediate protection.
• Knowledge of, and the ability to apply in practice, the principles of childcare legislation and statutory guidance relating to child protection, looked after children and the provision of services to children in need.
• Ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload, to work under pressure with completing demands and to make use of supervision and work as a member of a team.
• Ability to undertake high quality assessments, which are child-centred involving both children and their families to capture their voice and lived experience, focused on the outcomes for children, are holistic in approach identifying both strengths and difficulties, are multi-agency and multi-disciplinary and lead to action and the provision of services to address the identified needs.
• Skills in continuously assessing the needs of children and young people, in the co-production and development of safety plans and service provision.
• A knowledge and understanding of the developmental needs of children and young people within the context of their family and other social relationships.
• Ability to understand and work with a variety of family relationship dynamics as well as the family networks.
• To be confident in their ability to continuously develop skills in communicating with children and their families. Ensuring that the voice of children and their families are heard, and plans reflect their opinion and views. Equally as important is to be skilled in providing evidence of this communication and the impact the plan has on the family.
• Verbal and written communication skills, to include an ability to provide good quality written reports for conferences, reviews and court proceedings that are child focused and timely.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of social work practice which will include undertaking the necessary post qualifying awards, participating in training, supervision, group supervision and team meetings.
• To take personal responsibility for your own continuous professional development essential for the delivery of the high standard of service that the service users of North Tyneside should expect.

Requirements of this role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

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.