Senior Social Worker - Locality Child Protection

Remedy Social Work; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus - up to £250 per person

Double payrolls each week

Top tier supplier across London

Job summary

Yorkshire Collab - Wakefield is seeking a Senior Social Worker to join the Locality Child Protection team. The role involves managing high-complexity caseloads, assessing needs and risks for children and families, and contributing to safeguarding work and court processes.

You will supervise students and provide guidance to newly qualified social workers, while helping shape future services within the team and contributing to policy development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of higher-complexity cases in the Locality Child Protection team.
• Conduct assessments of needs and risk for children, young people and families.
• Maintain and update case notes and records; write reports as required.
• Provide evidence in court in relation to care or other proceedings.

Job description

Our client Yorkshire Collab - Wakefield is looking for a Senior Social Worker to join their Locality Child protection team.

Overall Purpose of the Post:

To provide a high quality and comprehensive social work service to children and young people, their families and carers in line with the policies and procedures of the Children and Young People's Directorate and within regulatory and statutory guidelines, the Knowledge and Skills Statement for Child and Family Work and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Code of Practice.

To contribute to a wide range of statutory social work activities and carry out professional social work tasks in accordance with recognised social work procedures, Signs of Safety, evidence based practice and professional social work ethics.

This is an experienced social worker role with specific responsibilities for managing a caseload of higher levels of complexity. This will include assessment of needs and the management of risk regarding children, young people, their families and carers.

Senior social workers will be expected to maintain and update case notes and other records, write reports as required and give evidence in court in relation to care or other proceedings. They will be expected to provide casework advice, support and guidance to other team members and contribute to the planning and developing of future services and policies, whilst promoting innovative ways of developing support to service users. The role will include the supervising of students and the development of the practice learning setting, including providing support and guidance to newly qualified social workers within the team as required.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work.

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Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit