Social Worker -Children Safeguarding

Location Tower Hamlets
Salary £30.00 - £32.50 per hour
Discipline
Experienced social worker

SH Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
1. Provision of social work services, working with individual service users, undertaking assessments in line with the Assessment
Framework and other relevant local and national guidance, including that for looked after children and young people, providing
advice, assistance, counselling and other forms of personal assistance with the aim of enhancing and/or protecting individual
welfare.
2. Complying with the statutory requirements of the relevant children and young people, mental health or community care legislation,
and working in line with the requirements of the Council’s policies and procedures to ensure that children are safeguarded and
able to maximise their life chances.
3. Working as a member of a duty and assessment team, providing a duty and assessments service to users that ensure initial
actions, arrangements and care plans are in place to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people.
4. To provide a duty system, operating as a multi-disciplinary team to process and screen new referrals signposting or routing
appropriately other services and advising other professionals.
5. To support transition for children and families moving from statutory services to targeted and universal services.
Assessment and Intervention Team
1. Provision of social work services, working with individual service users, undertaking assessments in line with the Assessment
Framework and other relevant local and national guidance, including that for looked after children and young people, providing
advice, assistance, counselling and other forms of personal assistance with the aim of enhancing and/or protecting individual
welfare.
2. Complying with the statutory requirements to ensure that children are safeguarded and able to maximise their life chances.
3. Working as a member of a duty and assessment team, providing a duty and assessments service to users that ensure initial
actions, arrangements and care plans are in place to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people.
4. Working as a member of a team, providing a service to users that ensures that actions, assessments and care plans are in place
to promote the longer-term safety and well-being of children and young people.
Family Support and Protection Team
1. Provision of social work services, working with individual service users, undertaking assessments in line with the Assessment
Framework and other relevant local and national guidance, including that for looked after children and young people, providing
advice, assistance, counselling and other forms of personal assistance with the aim of enhancing and/or protecting individual
welfare.
2. Complying with the statutory requirements of the relevant children and young people, mental health or community care legislation,
and working in line with the requirements of the Council’s policies and procedures to ensure that children are safeguarded and
able to maximise their life chances.
3. Work as a member of the team, providing a service to users that ensure that actions, assessments and care plans are in place to
promote the longer term safety and well-being of children and young people, enabling them to maximise their life chances.
Children with Disabilities Team
1. To work within a multi-disciplinary approach to provide early help and a statutory social work service for children with disabilities;
undertaking child in need and carers and child protection assessments, undertake care package reviews, and contribute to
Continuing Care and Education, Health and Care Plans.
2. To work in a multi-disciplinary context to safeguard and provide a high quality corporate parenting service for children looked after
with a disability, to maximise their life chances.
3. Assess and help families’ access provision which may include a range of universal provision; short breaks, individual budget or
direct payment, personal care, mobility, communication, social, psychological or behavior management support, advocacy; and
services for young people with a disability preparing for adulthood.
4. Contribute and ensure that children and young people who are disabled or who have complex health needs receive coordinated, high-quality child and family-centered services which are based on assessed needs, which promote social inclusion and,
where possible, enable them and their families to live ordinary lives.