Social Worker-Child Protection

Location Tower Hamlets
Salary £28.00 - £30.50 per hour
Discipline

Children Looked After Team
1. To work in a multi-disciplinary context to safeguard and provide a high quality corporate parenting service for children looked after, to maximise their life chances.
2. Undertake a range of assessments, intervention and review for and with children looked after and their families; inclusive
of statutory duties, court work, permanency planning, advising on contact and matching, undertaking direct work and pathway planning.
3. Improve outcomes for children in terms of their safety, health, education, social and emotional well-being.
4. Visit, listen and meet the holistic needs of children and young people looked after in partnership with their carers.
Leaving Care Team
1.Provision of Leaving Care Support Services, undertaking pathway assessment and planning process, including education, training, employment, accommodation, health, personal support, family and social relationships, practical skills and financial assistance.
2. Working with individual service users to provide advice, assistance and support and other forms of personal assistance with the aim of enhancing or protecting or protecting individual welfare.
3. To contribute as a corporate parent to listen and support children looked after and care leavers to develop into resilient, successful individuals.
4. Provision of high quality and timely care for all care leavers so they are able to form healthy relationships and have a sense of achievement and purpose.