Qualified Social Worker

Qualified Social Worker
Location: South East
Pay rate:  £36,648-£42,403
We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join the Adult’s Service. This is an exciting opportunity to join our clients social work team in the southeast. You will be supported by an experienced team manager.  Our client has a strong and positive culture in this South East local authority, which we would love you to be a part of.  We offer regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision
 
As part of this South East dedicated Adults Team you will be working in a busy and supportive team. Your role will be to support citizens across the local authority (including out-of-borough cases) with the aim to offer the appropriate support in the right place at the right time. You will aim to  understand individual’s strengths, assets and wishes to maximise their potential for independence, recognising the importance of assuming that the individual is best placed to know their own outcomes, goals and wellbeing. You will undertake assessments and to support individuals to develop personalised care plans that take account of community assets, informal networks, universal services and other support and provision which reduces dependency. You will  work with health and social care colleagues and other partners by engaging in innovative practice and a visionary approach to creating a better Place to live.

Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Experience working within, Court, Children in Need and Child Protection.

• Supporting child and families subject CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings and court proceedings 

• Understand factors that impact children including abuse and neglect 

• Undertake Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision making, planning and review 
• Undertake effective direct work with children and families 

• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.

 
In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-


This role is ideally located for those travelling from Surrey, Crawley, Slough, Croydon, Bromley, Orpingham, Epson, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Guildford, London, Cambridge, Northampton,  Southend-on-Sea, Dartford, Reading, Rochford, Colchester, Ipswich, Cambridge, Watford, Broadstairs, Dover, Foulkstone, Eastbourne, Worthing, Portsmouth,  Crawley.