Social Worker

Liverpool - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are working closely alongside with a local authority in Liverpool to assist with the appointment of a Social Worker on a 3-months contract highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: 28.02- 38.00 per hour

Summary:

The Social Worker in the Family Help team provides intensive targeted and therapeutic support to vulnerable children and young people and their families. The primary purpose of this role is to prevent family breakdown and the escalation of cases to statutory assessment teams (i.e. those on the cusp of or meeting the threshold for Level of Need 4 (LON4) / Children in Need (Section 17) intervention). The postholder will manage a complex caseload offering a robust wraparound service to families experiencing multiple challenges such as kinship care breakdown risk neglect domestic abuse and parental mental health/substance misuse issues with a clear focus on repairing relationships and maintaining family stability.

Responsibilities:

Provide direct intensive and outcome-focused social work intervention to children young people and their families with the goal of stabilising kinship and family care arrangements.
Hold professional responsibility for complex cases where children are identified as being at risk of significant harm (LON4 cusp). Implement and review robust safety plans to reduce risk and prevent the escalation of families into the statutory safeguarding system.
Undertake comprehensive social work assessments and lead the development implementation and review of multi-agency Family Help/Early Help plans (such as the Team Around the Family approach).
Maintain meticulous accurate and timely records on the electronic case management system ensuring a clear audit trail of professional judgment analysis and decision-making in line with statutory guidance policy and Social Work England standards.
Engage in regular professional supervision and maintain Continuous Professional Development (CPD) to ensure practice is informed by the latest research legislation and best practice particularly concerning therapeutic interventions and managing complex family dynamics.

Qualifications:

A recognised professional Social Work qualification (e.g. BA Hons in Social Work MA/MSc in Social Work or a recognised equivalent such as DipSW).
Current and valid registration with Social Work England (SWE) is mandatory.

Essentials:

Demonstrable post-qualifying experience of working within a statutory childrens social care setting (e.g. Assessment Safeguarding or Looked After Children teams).
Direct experience in providing intervention and support to children and families within kinship or family care arrangements and mitigating the risk of placement breakdown.
Experience in delivering intensive time-limited and direct work with families to achieve measurable change focusing on relationship repair and building parental capacity.
Expert knowledge of the relevant legal frameworks including the Children Act 1989 and its application to children on the cusp of statutory intervention.

Please note:

You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
You should have right to work in U.K
This role requires an Enhanced DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though opening assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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We are working closely alongside with a local authority in Liverpool to assist with the appointment of a Social Worker on a 3-months contract highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration. Rate of Pay: 28.02- 38.00 per hour Summary: The Soc...