Social Worker-Children Safeguarding

Location Brent
Salary £35.00 - £38.00 per hour
Discipline
1. To provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of
children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines,
Directorate policies, standards and guidelines.
2. To assess need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard and protect children and promote positive outcomes. Working to best practice whilst promoting integrated agency approaches for the benefit of children and young persons.
3. Manage and monitor a workload of complex cases as directed and organise work activities taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, ensuring statutory responsibilities are undertaken for children including visiting children, arranging reviews, reporting to court, delivering within timescales and meeting other national and local performance targets.
4. Responsible for planning and providing a range of appropriate services and
interventions to meet the needs of children, their families and carers by assessing, arranging, coordinating, and monitoring provision within delegated levels of responsibility and in accordance with the required local and national policies, procedures, standards and legislation.
5. To contribute to service development as required. Take responsibility for own professional development by attending supervision, appraisals and learning and training opportunities and maintain ongoing continuing professional development to ensure the requirements of the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registration are met whilst working in an effective and efficient manner