Duty and Assessment Team Social Worker

Salford City Council; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

Hybrid working

Training in Family Partnership Model

Wellbeing Offer

Regular supervision

Job summary

Salford City Council is expanding its Duty and Assessment Team (DAT) to provide outstanding support to children, families, carers and practitioners across Salford. Theteam works across six sub teams, with a focus on rapid response, safeguarding, and long-term family support through the child in need and child protection pathways.

Hybrid working and a competitive salary are offered. The role emphasises building trusted relationships, person-centred decision making, and mentoring through a strong

Qualifications

• The HTML does not specify formal degree or cert requirements.

Responsibilities

• Building trusted relationships with children and families, centring their wishes and beliefs.
• Having conversations with people based on what matters most to them.
• Connecting people to wider networks of opportunity and support.
• Increasing peoples creative potential and self-esteem.
• Responding quickly to crisis and sticking with families until things improve.
• Keeping in touch with children, young people and families and monitoring changes.
• Being ambitious, curious with a desire to learn and reflect.

Job description

We are on our way to achieving our goal to provide Outstanding support and care to children, families, carers and practitioners across Salford. We are investing in the right social workers to get us there and we are expanding our teams within our Duty and Assessment Team (DAT). The Duty and Assessment service is currently made of up of 6 sub teams with 6 social workers, 1 advanced social worker, a team manager and service manager. Here on DAT each team is on duty for one week, where you will be allocated new children and families to support and assess. On DAT workers continue intervention with families post C&F assessment until they have had 3 child in need meetings or ICPC has been convened. This means that longer term interventions with families are supported by our child in need and child protection team so families receive a more consistent service. We are resource rich which helps our workers. This ranges from our bespoke team of family practitioners co-located with the social work teams, dedicated business support alongside minute taking pools to help reduce time spent on admin. We have bespoke Domestic Abuse offer which includes direct work with children, parents and adults that harm and Edge of Care service Route29 who will complete visits and support after working hours and the weekend. Have a keen interest in an area? Some of our workers are champions in sexual harm, neglect, housing, NRPF and domestic abuse. We are keen for you to have specialisms or be a 'champion' of practice in a certain area. In Salford, we are interested in you as a person and the practitioner you are or who you aspire to be. You will be responsible for:

• Building trusted relationships while making sure peoples wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision making.
• Having conversations with people based on what matters most to them.
• Connecting people to wider networks of opportunity and support.
• Increasing peoples creative potential and self-esteem.
• Responding quickly to crisis and sticking with children and families until things are better.
• Keeping in touch with children, young people and families and taking a genuine interest in how they are and if anything needs to change.
• Being ambitious, curious with a desire to learn and reflect.
• Competitive salary following pay and grading review.
• Free parking
• Hybrid working giving flexibility for you to manage your diary and offer a better work/life balance.
• Training in the Family Partnership Model which Salford is adopting across the Local Authority.
• Recently refurbished office space with free parking on site. The majority of our teams are sat together in Swinton at Unity House.
• Rich in resources to help you with any child or family you work with.
• Robust training offer and mentoring scheme to support you with your career and aspirations.
• A comprehensive Wellbeing Offer
• Regular, quality, reflective supervision from a consistent management and leadership team.