Children's Emergency Duty Team (CEDT) Sessional Social Worker

London Borough of Sutton; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking council as a Sessional Social Worker in the Children's Emergency Duty Team. This role is pivotal in safeguarding children and ensuring their well-being across multiple boroughs. You'll work collaboratively with families and agencies, providing essential support during evenings and weekends. Enjoy a flexible working environment that values your contributions and promotes a healthy work-life balance. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and families in your community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working hours

Public Health Service Localised Flexi-time

Volunteering days

Learning and development programme

Local and national discounts

Interest-free season ticket loans

Local Government Pension Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Confidential wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering social work services for children.
• Ability to work outside standard office hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide vital support in safeguarding children and young people.
• Conduct assessments and support planning for individuals.

Skills

Social Work

Safeguarding

Assessment Skills

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Social Work

Professional Social Work Qualification

Job description

Children's Emergency Duty Team (CEDT) Sessional Social Worker

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About The Borough

In Sutton, there is much for us to be proud of both as a council and as a borough. This includes high levels of resident satisfaction, the quality of our services, our success in addressing our financial challenges to date, the way that we involve and engage with residents on key issues facing the borough, and the enthusiastic and motivated staff that we employ.

About The Borough

In Sutton, there is much for us to be proud of both as a council and as a borough. This includes high levels of resident satisfaction, the quality of our services, our success in addressing our financial challenges to date, the way that we involve and engage with residents on key issues facing the borough, and the enthusiastic and motivated staff that we employ.

Looking ahead, there are plans for the delivery of new homes and new schools and the London Cancer Hub is being developed, while the Council is also seen as a driving force within the South London Partnership of five outer south west London boroughs focused on strategic growth, regeneration and investment.

All of this demonstrates a good track record and an authority that is ambitious and set to deliver more improvements for the borough. We've set out our vision for the future of Sutton in our corporate plan - Ambitious for Sutton. This strategic plan will shape the outcomes we achieve, the services we provide, and the impact we have on residents, to make Sutton a great place to live, work and raise a family.

Situated in Zone 5, Sutton is less than 30 minutes by train from central London, and south and south west London are easily accessible by public transport. There are 10 train stations which serve key neighbourhoods within the borough providing direct connections to London Victoria, London Bridge, London Blackfriars and St Pancras International. Sutton also has direct rail connections with Epsom, Dorking, Guildford and Horsham, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and West Croydon for the London Overground. There’s also an extensive road network which provides close and easy access to the M25 and M23.

About The Role And Our Ideal Candidate

We have exciting opportunities for confident and skilled Social Workers to work in the Children's Emergency Duty Team (CEDT) as sessional workers in Children Services. Our objective is to deliver the best outcomes in improving the quality of life for Children within Sutton, Merton, Kingston and Richmond for whom the service is provided

Reporting to a Team Manager, Social Workers within the CEDT are responsible for delivering our Out of Hours Service. Our team provide vital support to the service with the responsibility of working outside of standard office hours, during evenings, nights and at weekends to deliver our service in safeguarding children and young people. Working within the Care Act 2014, you will undertake carer's assessments and eligibility assessments whilst supporting planning and reviews. You will ensure appropriate advocacy or representation to ensure an individual's human rights are understood and promoted. Our work also covers daily enquiries to the team’s duty system, including initial safeguarding responses and protection planning as well as undertaking investigations. You will be working collaboratively with all relevant parties to ensure that the children and families enabled to live ordinary and fulfilled lives

About Us

The Emergency Duty Team provides essential social work cover for children across 4 London boroughs. We offer a social work service to children and young people in the Borough who are living at home on a plan across the tiers of need. This is achieved by working in partnership with relevant agencies, children and young people, and their families.

Within the team's geographical area we support children and young people through robust assessment, SMART planning and effective intervention to achieve positive outcomes within their families and communities. Working within a restorative practice approach, our team works in partnership with families and multi-agency colleagues in intervening to address both the presenting concerns and underlying difficulties.

Our Offer To You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
• General Council Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
• Public Health Service Localised Flexi-time Scheme - accrual of up to 5 days per year
• Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
• Comprehensive learning and development programme
• Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Car parking scheme
• Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
• Zip car scheme
• Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
• Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
• Subsidised gym membership
  
  
  

Application Process

Please apply online outlining what skills, abilities and experience you can bring which makes you an ideal candidate for this role. Please ensure you refer to the requirements outlined in the job profile when completing your application.

To support our diversity agenda and reduce the risk of bias in our recruitment activities, our short listing process completely anonymises personal information that can identify job applicants e.g. name, title etc. Our hiring managers review and short list applications based on the information provided as part of your application as to how well you meet the requirements and criteria for the role, as outlined in the job profile.

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Additional Information

We pride ourselves on being a diverse, inclusive and welcoming Borough and we aim to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve - the key highlights from our recent Equalities Workforce Report can be seen here. We are respectful of difference and realise the positive value of diversity in our workforce. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce. As part of our Disability Confident Committed status, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, and inclusive staff networks who help drive our diversity agenda.

The UK has introduced a new points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the GOV.UK website for right to work guidance.

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