Social Worker Children in Need

Location West Sussex
Salary £28.88 - £30.90 per hour
Discipline
Location: Worthing
Duty : two days a month but we also provide a back up in case someone is ill or a Covid related absence which is 1 day a month. Duty does not need to be office based.
Essential to be able to travel around West Sussex to fulfil the job requirement.
Caseloads are about 18 children
Team structure is: two teams working with looked after children. We have another team attached who work with asylum seeking children.
This position is to cover maternity leave.
About the Team
In the children looked after service there is the opportunity to build relationships with children and young people over a period of time in order to help them settle, make sense and recover from their experiences and look forward to their future. In our service there is an emphasis on the importance of direct work and developing and exercising these skills.
The candidate needs:
- To be an experienced worker with at least 2/3 years CLA experience.
- Recent Front line – child protection work
- Good assessment skills that are able to identify risk
- Direct work with children to be able to identify their needs
- Good multi agency working experience
WSCC SW TEAMS – BENEFITS
Currently planning the roll out of the Family Safeguarding model and starting to arrange training in motivational interviewing for our perm and agency staff. Unfilled vacancy gap less than 5% so teams well staffed.