Advanced Social Worker – Children’s

GR8 Recruitment; Saint Helier; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

GR8 Recruitment in Saint Helier, Jersey is seeking a senior social worker to lead multi-agency decision making and chair complex meetings to safeguard children and support families.

You will assess information from diverse sources to inform comprehensive care plans and provide coaching and mentoring to the team, including ASYE induction and supervision when required. Maintain records with confidentiality and contribute to best practice in challenging cases.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Social Work (Degree, Diploma or equivalent).
• Registered with the General Social Care Council and locally registered under Health Care (Registration)(Jersey) Law 1995.
• Experience and understanding of safeguarding and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-agency decisions and chair complex meetings to develop partnerships for children and families.
• Gather and analyse information from various sources to inform assessments and recommendations.
• Deliver high-quality social work services to safeguard children and support families.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team members and supervise ASYE activities.
• Induct and train ASYE staff; act as practice educator and supervisor where required.
• Assess and design care plans to protect and promote welfare of children and families.
• Communicate policies and responsibilities clearly to service users and carers to build trust.
• Maintain professional conduct and keep knowledge up to date to meet CPD requirements.
• Create and maintain records in line with data protection and disclosure policies.
• Provide management cover and crisis response as needed by the team.
• Demonstrate leadership and contribute to best practice in the team.

Education

Professional qualification in Social Work (Degree/Diploma or equivalent)

Job description

St Helier, United Kingdom | Posted on 20/10/2026

1. Take a lead role in multi-agency decision making to develop strong and effective working partnerships with other agencies and services involved with children and families. Chair complex meetings which may include strategy meetings, fostering and adoption panels and core planning meetings and reviews to ensure positive outcomes for young people.

2. Leverage professional knowledge and practice using accredited assessment tools to gather an analyse complex information from a variety of sources enabling the development of comprehensive assessments and informed recommendations.

3. Drive the delivery of high-quality social work services to children and families to ensure the welfare of children is safeguarded and they are protected in accordance with the legal and statutory obligations of Jersey Children’s Service.

4. Guide, coach and mentor team members to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, ensuring adherence to relevant legislation codes of conduct, policies and procedures ensuring the criteria for continuing professional registration is fulfilled.

5. Lead the induction and training activities for ASYE’s who will be based in the team. Where required, take the role of practice educator for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.

6. Holistically assess, develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people and their parents/carers. Wherever possible, promote children’s individual views and wishes to support their rights to control their own lives and to make informed choices about the services they receive.

7. Provide clear, accurate and appropriate, communication to service users and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work team including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary, to establish and maintain the

trust and confidence of service users and carers.

8. Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adhere to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and take responsibility for maintaining and improving personal knowledge and skills in order to ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled and that members of the public and other professionals have confidence in the service.

9. Create and maintain clear and accurate records to ensure that all relevant information is held as required by established procedures and best practice and in line with data protection, confidentiality, disclosure and consent policies, always bearing in mind that such documents may be disclosable for the purpose of Serious Case Reviews, external inquiry and inspection, and to the Royal Court in respect of civil applications or in criminal proceedings associated with the protection of vulnerable individuals.

10. Provide management cover and decision making as delegated by Team Manager, including Out of Hours as first point of contact in situations of crisis requiring an immediate operational response to risk.

11. Have their practice recognised as exemplary and provide leadership and professional wisdom to their colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity. Develop and ensure best practice as professional lead in assigned teams.

Requirements

ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

Qualifications

Please state the levelofeducation andprofessionalqualificationsand/ or specificoccupational training required.

A professional qualifica-tion in Social Work (e.g. Degree, Diploma or equiv- alentin Social Work).

Registered with the appropriate UK professional governing body i.e. the General Social Care Council andlocally, must also register under the Health Care (Registration)(Jersey)Law 1995.

Knowledge

Thisrelatestothelevelandbreadthof practical knowledge required to do the job (e.g. theunderstanding of a defined system, practice, method or procedure).

Specialist knowledge in social work underpinned by theory andrelevant practical experience.

Anunderstanding of chil-dren’s&adultSafeguard-ing issues. Good under-standing of the manage-ment of riskand support-ing vulnerable children and families in the com- munity.

Understands how to as-sess and manage risk whenmakingcomplexde-cisions that maybe dis-puted in court.

Practical knowledge of as-

Knowledge of the range of servicesprovided both within CYPES, Health and Community Services, by other StatesDepartments andbyprivateandvoluntarysector providers

sessingandarrangingde-livery of social care pack-ages for caseload clients.

Understandingof thera-peutic services, their ar-rangementand provision.

Knowledge of mentoring social work students and new entrants.

Practicalunderstandingof legislationrelatingtotheir specialist area of social work,the general work-ingsofcivilcourtsandthe conducting of policein-vestigations into related criminal activity.

Understands how to maintainrecordsaccording to confidentiality and data protection protocols.

Technical/Work-based Skills

Thisrelatestotheskillsspecifictothe job, e.g. language fluency, vehiclelicense etc.

Able todemonstrate a rangeofinformationtech-nologyskillsi.e.anability to effectivelyuse IT equipment and role criti-cal software.

Safeguarding certificated.

General Skills/Attributes

This relates to moregeneral characteristicsrequiredtodothejobeffectively, e.g. effective written communication skills, ability todelegate, motivation or commitment etc.

mously, with the capacity forindependent,responsi-ble, professional decisionmaking,oftenwhilstunder considerable pressure.

Organisational

skills

Ability to take on board complex factsor situa-tionsrequiring analysis,

interpretationand com-parisonofarangeofop-tionsinordertoarriveat a complex judgement.

Able to communicate calmly and clearly using a variety of media on sensitive andcomplex issues,includinglegisla-tion,ofteninemotivesit- uations.

Able to facilitate the in-volvement of a range of stakeholders (public and privatesector)todealef-fectivelywithcomplexis-sues relating to vulnera-ble serviceusers.

Able to followpolicyand understand the implica-tions and ramifications forareasoutsideoftheir own area of responsibility.

Highly resilient – good coping mechanismsfor dealingwithchallenging, stressful and emotionalsituations involving vulnerable children and adults.

Experience

This is the proven recordof experienceandachievementina field,profession or specialism.

This could include a minimum period of experience in a defined area of work if required by an external body (for example a period of post-qualification experience).

Providing a social work service in a community, mental health or hospital setting;dischargingstatu-tory social care functions on behalf of an organization.

Developing and imple- menting are packages.

Negotiatingservicesfor vulnerableserviceusers,including issues involving childprotection,vulnera-bleadults,mentaland physical health is-sues andbereavement.