Children's Social Worker - Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub

Cambridgeshire County Council; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 16,000 - 26,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

6 days protected CPD

Relocation package up to £8,000

Pay progression scheme

Refer a Friend £350

Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Ex

CARE

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking a social worker to join the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) on a 18.5-hour, 2.5-day week basis (Wed–Fri). The role focuses on safeguarding children and young people through rapid assessments, multi-agency collaboration, and timely decisions to support families.

The post offers a hybrid working pattern with office days and home-working, and requires an experienced practitioner with knowledge of Working Together guidance and S47 investigations.

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration.
• Experience in child protection assessments and safeguarding.
• Ability to travel countywide and work from multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Assess risk and determine appropriate services using threshold guidance.
• Analyse daily risk and implement swift safeguarding measures.
• Develop SMART plans leading to clear outcomes for children and families.
• Build empowering relationships with young people and professionals.
• Escalate concerns to management when needed.

Skills

Social Work England registration

Safeguarding expertise

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Social Work degree

Job description

About the role

Ready for your next challenge? Join our dynamic Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub, where your child protection expertise will shape timely decisions and deliver meaningful outcomes for children and families.

We have a part time (18.5 hours, 2.5 days a week) vacancy for a Social Worker with extensive experience in Child Protection Services to work the second half of the week (Wed - Fri).

At the MASH, we are a dynamic and energetic team dedicated to providing timely and appropriate services to children, young people, and families in our community. Our work is diverse and engaging, involving extensive multi-agency collaboration, often under tight deadlines. We focus on making swift, informed decisions to safeguard children and young people, ensuring their welfare needs are met in accordance with the Working Together guidelines. The nature of our work allows us to witness positive outcomes for children quickly.

You will be joining a highly effective and supportive team which is made up of both social care qualified and alternatively qualified staff. We are co-located with Health, Police, Adult Social Care, Early Help and Education colleagues, as well as a number of virtual partners. The Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) is based at the Police Headquarters, Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon.

We pride ourselves on providing all workers in the MASH with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in. This is a hybrid post with required days in the office and other days working from home.

Closing date Sunday 1st November. Interviews will likely take place week commencing 9th November.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role will be required to work from a police building and therefore this post will be subject to the outcome of a Police vetting check.

What will you be doing?

As a MASH Social Worker, you will have exceptional verbal and written communication skills to connect with families, partner agencies and internal colleagues. You'll be able to identify levels of risk and need against the threshold document to determine right services at the right time. You will analyse risk levels daily, ensuring swift and effective safeguarding measures are put in place for children and young people, in line with child protection policies and procedures, swiftly escalating concerns to management when necessary. Your assessments will identify and respond to needs, building on family strengths and leading to clear outcomes through SMART planning. You'll forge empowering relationships with age-appropriate young people, their families and professionals linked with them to facilitate change and improved outcomes for children and young people.

About you

You will demonstrate your expertise in all aspects of safeguarding children in accordance with statutory legislation, with a solid understanding of threshold application. Your experience will include completing child and family assessments, S47 investigations, ICPC reports, court reports, and conducting joint safeguarding work with police and other professionals. You will have been involved in Child Protection planning, Child in Need plans, and childcare plans.

Additionally, you will possess a thorough knowledge of the impact of adverse childhood experiences, domestic abuse, exploitation, missing children, homelessness, neglect, and all forms of harm.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

Please note we are not accepting applications from candidates living overseas who require sponsorship to move to the UK

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we'll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

About us

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