Childrens Social Worker – Cornwall Childrens, Schools and FamiliesRate: up to £34 per hour We are recruiting for motivated qualified social worker to join our busy team. This role is with one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving as one of the best places to live and work in.
This is a qualified social worker role requiring you to be SWE registered and to have relevant experience within childrens services.
This role will be within the Multi-Agency Referral Unit, based in Truro (Mid-Cornwall).
The Multi-Agency referral unit is the front door for requests for social work support and is co-located with the Early help Hub, thus offering an integrated and proportionate response to requests for help and support. Key factors that you should have are:
- A solid understanding of working with thresholds and assessment of need in order to identify the early identification of risk, harm and need.
- Experience in making timely, co-ordinated and proportionate responses to ensure the safety of children.
- Excellent communication skills and confidence when speaking to parents, young people and professionals in order to gather and assess information to aid decision making.
- Working closely with children of all ages and with parents in often extremely stressful and challenging circumstances.
- Developing close and constructive working relationships with a variety of professionals. An understanding of the need to recognise the importance of partnership working to safeguard children is essential.
- The ability to work at pace and ensure that children and families access services in a timely way.
The successful candidate would be joining a stable and supportive team and experienced team managers and management group.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you.
- An easy registration process (all done online)
- Referral schemes and incentives
- Ongoing compliance managed for you
- Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more
Please contact Joe Thomas-Samuels on 07860876427 or joe.thomas-samuels@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.