Child Protection Social Worker — Complex Caseload

Wax Recruitment Ltd; Nechells; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust is recruiting a social worker to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high-quality services.

Based at One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, with an expectation of office-based work two days per week, you will manage complex caseloads, complete statutory assessments, and collaborate with multi-agency partners to ensure children’s needs are met.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirements are met.
• To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all relevant information and take appropriate actions to fulfil statutory responsibilities to promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of the child/young people.
• To ensure the well-being and safety of the child/young person is paramount through analysing all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
• To create and plan for children in need of protection and children in care involving multi agency partners according to need.
• To implement, monitor and review within multi-agency meetings, children's plans to ensure needs are being met.
• Ensure that meetings are proactive and timely; and meet the child's/young person's needs, wishes and feelings.
• Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people; and ensure that services are ‘joined up’ in approach.
• To accurately record, report and communicate using accurate, up-to-date evidence based information in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
• To communicate effectively to a variety of audiences through written, verbal and other means of communication.
• To prepare and present reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices.
• 2.11 To establish skills, knowledge and experience to enhance working practices in accordance with the College of Social Work ASYE Year 1 programme, Professional Capability Framework and the Social Work Engalnd’s Code of Practice for Social Workers.
• 2.12 To take personal responsibility for your own professional development and reflective practice and keep up-to-date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development.
• 2.13 To work as a team member and attend team meetings and service reviews to positively contribute to the outcomes for children achieved as a team.
• 2.14 Actively support the Team Manager by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the job or needs of the service.

Job description

Birmingham Children's Trust is recruiting a social worker to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high-quality services.

Based at One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, with an expectation of office-based work two days per week, you will manage complex caseloads, complete statutory assessments, and collaborate with multi-agency partners to ensure children’s needs are met.