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Candidates must have Leaving and aftercare experience, Children in Care experience is desired.
Candidates will be expected to be office based at least once a week, this may increase to 2 times per week, depending on ECC guidelines
Role Specific Accountabilities
Social Worker Leaving and After Care Team
Location | Essex |
Salary | £205 per day |
Discipline | Social Care |
Candidates will be expected to be office based at least once a week, this may increase to 2 times per week, depending on ECC guidelines
Role Specific Accountabilities
- Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy and guidance
- Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or well-being of children at risk of abuse or neglect
- Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally to help children, young people and families improve and gain control of their lives when safety or ability to participate in their community is restricted
- Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children, adults and families as appropriate, including intervention when information or circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers
- Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them
- Accountable for making recommendations about whether a case has reached the threshold for statutory intervention
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