Social Worker -Child Protection & Wellbeing

Location Devon
Salary £38.00 - £40.00 per hour
Discipline
Working with children and families where domestic abuse is identified as the main risk factor. Undertaking both direct work and interventions with children and families, drawing on experience and training in working with domestic violence perpetrators to reduce risk. These role will be within Children and Families with a work location of Exeter. Remote working is not possible because you would be expected to work which children and families directly and undertake statutory expectations but it would not be a generic allocation, it would be specific type of allocation e.g all 0-5’s or e.g all 13 – 18 etc. Office working is still the same. All our offices remain open for access and use but we have limited numbers on who can be there. The message is still work from home where possible, however some feel it is better for emotional wellbeing and personal development to be in. Some will just use as a touch down between visits etc.

perienced Social Workers have the following responsibilities: 1) To safeguard children and young people and adults at risk. 2) To take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive, antidiscriminatory and anti-oppressive, and support others to adopt that approach. 3) To gather information from service users, informal networks and other agencies to analyse, summarise and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of needs, balancing risk and protective factors. 4) To formulate and produce outcome-focused plans with clear aims and objectives (within the context of managing risk), and support others to do so. 5) To maintain case records, keeping them up to date and to provide concise and accurate information about a service user’s circumstances and plans. Make use of IT systems provided by the Service, complying with policy and procedures. 6) To manage a workload of complex cases and organise work activities; taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, working to timescales and meeting national and local performance expectations. 7) To develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team, wider service area and partner agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary approach. 8) To ensure that all necessary communications and referrals are made to relevant agencies, working together with them to promote the wellbeing of children, young people and/or adults at risk and best outcomes for them. 9) To convene and chair multi-disciplinary meetings including those where adegree of challenge or conflict is expected; or where the meeting may contribute to the evidence which will support legal proceedings. 10) To share information with other agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults at risk. 11) To demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and national/local policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice. Apply legal reasoning, using professional legal expertise and advice appropriately, recognising where scope for professional judgement exists 12) To keep up to date with relevant research, statutory changes and practice guidance. 13) To take responsibility for own professional development by attending supervision and appraisal and engaging in continuous, self-directed and purposeful learning and developmental opportunities to ensure best practice and maintain ongoing continuing professional development to ensure the requirements of the regulatory body registration are met. 2 14) To operate in a manner consistent with the regulatory body standards and Social Work England Standards from December 2019. 15) To take responsibility for the professional development of others including the provision of professional advice, mentoring and support to colleagues including advice, guidance and support to less experienced social workers and alternatively qualified or non-qualified social care staff. 16) To support the teaching and assessment of social work students and Newly Qualified Social Workers carrying out practice learning in Devon. 17) To participate flexibly in other team duties and activities as designated by the line manager or supervisor. 18) Under the direction of his/her line manager, to undertake specific pieces of work in relation to customer feedback or representations, complaints, multi-agency projects or service developments and make recommendations or action plans and implement these to improve service delivery. 19) To contribute to service development as required. Experienced Social Workers in Adults have the additional followi