Senior Social Worker

Compass Fostering; Sowerby Bridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's support organization is seeking a Senior Social Worker for a Residential Family Assessment Centre in Sowerby Bridge. This role is pivotal for assessing and providing support to families, ensuring high standards of safeguarding and compliance with OFSTED regulations. Candidates must have strong expertise in managing complex family assessments and collaboration with external agencies.

Benefits

Career Development

Access to Wellbeing Services

Increased Holiday with Service

Referral Scheme with Financial Rewards

Life Assurance Scheme

Competitive Salary based on Experience

Bonuses for Service Recognition

Cashback for Medical Appointments

Rewards and Vouchers for Performance

Qualifications

• Registration with Social Work England required.
• Minimum of 3 years post-qualifying experience necessary.
• Experience with safeguarding and parenting capacity assessments.

Responsibilities

• Assessing, observing, and supporting families.
• Completing comprehensive Parenting Capacity assessments.
• Supervising and ensuring quality of submitted assessments.

Skills

Safeguarding

Assessment

Communication

Education

Social work qualification

Job description

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About The Role

We are looking for Senior Social Workers for a 7-bedroomResidential Family Assessment Centre in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. This will be a busy and challenging role and therefore you will have commitment and dedication to providing high quality support to family and staff in line with OFSTED regulations. You will also be required to have excellent safeguarding standards and a strong ethos of providing effective support to families to achieve positive outcomes.

As a Senior Social Worker, in conjunction with other team members and professionals, you will have the overall responsibility of assessing, observing, supporting, and monitoring allocated families. Where you will complete a comprehensive Parenting Capacity assessment.

You will report to the Registered Manager/Deputy Manager, as well as the Advanced Practitioner, who you will be supervised by. You will also have responsibility for the progression and quality of all the final parenting capacity assessments that are submitted to the local authorities.

You may also be required to support covering the on call provision.

Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Requirements:

• A Social work qualification and registration with Social Work England
• A minimum of 3 years post qualifying experience
• Good knowledge of safeguarding, assessment, and risk management and established experience of completing parenting capacity and holistic whole family assessments.
• Experience of partnership working with families and external agencies, preferably in a Safeguarding or Looked after Children's Teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively in complex or challenging situations with families.
• Must be prepared to be flexible across evenings and weekends, according to the needs of the service.

Preferable Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience of Parenting Assessment Manual (PAM's) or ParentAssess approach for assessing parents.

What we can offer you:

• Career Development - We offer many career paths, recognising hard work & supporting you into senior roles.
• Competitive Salary - using structured pay grades based on your training and experience.
• Wellbeing - Access to therapeutic wellbeing sessions with our Therapeutic Services team.
• Bonuses - receive £200 service award on your two-year anniversary, plus up to £500 special recognition service for outstanding practice.
• Referral Scheme - Earn up to £3,250 by recommending a foster carer or up to £1,000 by recommending a full-time staff member.
• Awards - The chance to win up to £150 in vouchers every month from our REACH Awards.
• MediCash - Cashback for various medical appointments & treatments with MediCash.
• Life Assurance Scheme - 3 x annual salary after successful completion of your probation review.
• Increased Holiday - 27.5 days increasing gradually to 30 days after 4 years' service.

Our recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicants will be offered a role subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

Compass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As we continue to grow, we know that we must have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our children and young people.