Social Worker - Children's

Location Derbyshire
Salary £21 - £23 per hour
Discipline
Produce care plans with individuals and ensure their effective
implementation.
• Provide social work with homeless and potentially homeless
persons/families.
• Act as a Duty Officer.
• Assist in the inductions of newly qualified social work employees.
• Provide consultation to other social worker staff on a particular specialism.
• Supervise and assess social worker students or trainees.
• Record all work undertaken and prepare reports/assessments.
• Accept responsibility, with the line manager, for reviewing work on
caseloads at regular intervals. This would include closure and transfer of
cases.
• Ensure that the quality of service provided to and on behalf of individuals
meets agreed quality standards.
• Maintain effective contacts with all providers of care and other people
responsible for relevant community resources.
• Initiating, where necessary, multi-disciplinary meetings for the coordination of complex care arrangements including safeguarding.
• Undertake financial assessment role, where required.
• Seek to ensure income maximisation for people.
• Understand and comply with all County Council policies and relevant
legislation in the performance of the duties of the post.