Social Worker Children in Need

Location Southwark
Salary £39.00 - £41.50 per hour
Discipline

  • To hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with the General       Social Care Council
  • Experience of assessments and childcare planning for children identified as vulnerable and in need
  • Experience of completing assessments and reports that identifies vulnerable children in need, children who need protection and safeguarding, including unborn children.
  • Experience of planning for children becoming looked including the use of a range of statutory powers and the courts
  • Experience of working with and engaging Young People / Children with Special or Additional Needs
  • Experience of working, in partnership with parents, extended families and those representing them
  • Experience of using electronic children’s records and maintaining service user information systems
  • Experience of working in a front line Referral and Assessment Duty Service.
  • Experience of delivering quality assessments and services to children and their families from different ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds
 

 

Social Worker: Family Support Service

  

 

Job Summary:  To provide a social work service to members of the local community to include an appropriate range of statutory duties with the more vulnerable clients or those with complex problems.  The postholder may be expected to accept responsibility for action in relation to the liberty or safety of clients in emergency situations