Children Social Worker - Senior Practiitoner

Corus Consultancy; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A social service organization in London seeks a qualified social worker to manage a diverse caseload of children in need. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, creating plans, and collaborating with families and partner agencies to ensure children's safety and well-being. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and experience in statutory social care.

Qualifications

• Proficient ability to communicate in English.
• Experience working with children and families within statutory social care.
• Resilient and organised, able to manage a varied caseload.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse caseload of children in need.
• Carry out assessments and create outcome-focused plans.
• Build strong relationships with children and families.

Skills

Communication

Assessment

Planning

Risk management

Decision making

Report writing

Education

Qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a diverse caseload of children in need, on child protection plans or in care.
• Carry out timely assessments and create clear, outcome-focused plans.
• Build strong relationships with children and families, ensuring their voices shape decisions.
• Lead and contribute to core groups, reviews, conferences and court proceedings.
• Work closely with partner agencies to coordinate effective support and interventions.
• Keep accurate, up-to-date case records and provide high-quality reports.
• Champion safe, nurturing and permanent solutions for children.

To build positive, supportive, and respectful relationships with families in order to help support children in need of help or protection.

Where possible, you will help support families to raise their children safely within their family network by supporting and augmenting their support network. Where this is not possible, alternate plans will need to be explored and implemented to help ensure children grow up in safe, nurturing, and happy homes that achieve long term permanence. This will require working in a supported practice environment that respectfully challenges and enables you to use your professional judgement, autonomy, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Required:

• Qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration
• Proficient ability to communicate in English and be able to influence others in an effort to help coordinate services and supports in the best way possible to keep children as safe and well cared for as possible.
• Experience working with children and families within statutory social care
• Strong assessment, planning and safeguarding skills
• Confident in managing risk and making sound, timely decisions
• Skilled communicator, able to build trust and influence partners
• Resilient, organised and able to manage a busy, varied caseload
• IT-literate, with accurate recording and report-writing skills