Social Worker - Children's Safeguarding

Location Southwark
Salary £27 - £28 per hour
Discipline
• To hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with the General Social Care Council
• Experience of assessments and childcare planning for children identified as vulnerable and in need
• Experience of completing assessments and reports that identifies vulnerable children in need, children who need protection and safeguarding, including unborn children.
• Experience of planning for children becoming looked including the use of a range of statutory powers and the courts
• Experience of working with and engaging Young People / Children with Special or Additional Needs
• Experience of working, in partnership with parents, extended families and those representing them
• Experience of using electronic children’s records and maintaining service user information systems
• Experience of working in a front line Referral and Assessment Duty Service.
• Experience of delivering quality assessments and services to children and their families from different ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds