Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

Location Central Bedfordshire
Salary £40 - £42.80 per hour
Discipline
Social workers required in both North and South CWD Teams.
South Full time social worker required 37 hours per week.
North Part time social worker required 18.5 hours per week

• Assessments
• S.47 Enquiries and reports
• Child Protection meetings and reviews
• Core Group Meetings
• CIN meetings
• CIN visits
• LAC Reports
• LAC reviews
• LAC visits
• Care Plans
• Risk assessments
• Placement Planning Meetings
• PLO, meetings and interventions to support parents to meet targets identified in PLO directions,
• Liaised with solicitors,
• Supported parents with hospital attendance as part of child protection plan, liaising with doctors and medical practitioners
• Close liaison with schools and staff
• Offered parents advice on EHCP’s SEND, local offer and specialist services,
• Supported parents and young people to access advocacy services
• Supported parents with housing issues and housing advisors
• Section 7 reports- (High Court Judge commented my s.7 report had ‘commendable clarity and insight, identifying the young person’s care needs).
• SEN reports and attendance at EHCP Annual Reviews
• Arranging care packages