Social Worker

5 Star Recruitment; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

5 Star Recruitment is seeking a qualified Social Worker in Plymouth to undertake direct work with children, young people and families, ensuring the child’s voice is central to all casework and recording. You will work within legislative and policy frameworks and participate in government directed training for newly qualified social workers.

The role involves completing risk and needs assessments, maintaining timely case records, and contributing to supervision and professional development; it

Qualifications

• Registered social worker with the relevant regulatory body
• Experience with child protection and safeguarding
• Ability to work in varied settings and travel
• Strong recording and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Direct work with children, young people and families in multiple settings
• Deliver packages of support to engage families to achieve positive outcomes
• Meet tight deadlines and manage competing demands
• Undertake assessments of need and risk and record case notes

Skills

Risk indicators awareness

Effective communication

Time management

Relationship building

Education

Degree or higher qualification in Social Work

Job description

Role Outcomes

Undertaking casework with children, young people and families, working within the legislative and policy frameworks that underpin the casework (80%) Work based and off-site training and developmental activity as defined by the relevant government directed programme for newly qualified social workers (20%)

Role Measures

Maintain satisfactory performance as measured through probation, performance review and continued assessment under the relevant 12 month government directed programme for newly qualified social workers

Key activities

Directing work with children, young people and families in multiple settings/locations, ensuring the child/young persons voice is central to all case work and recording including:

Delivering recognised packages of support and tools to engage children, young people and families to achieve positive outcomes.

This will require climbing stairs and lifting small children and their equipment, travel to and from destinations, lone working and occasional weekend and evening working

Building purposeful, effective relationships with children and families, demonstrating a high level of skill in evidence based, effective socialwork approaches to helping children and families which support change

Working to tight deadlines, managing conflicting demands and interruptions (30%)

Undertaking assessments of need and risk; plan for outcomes, reviewing in line with procedures and applying understanding of the key risk factors affecting child welfare and development including:

Analysis of the decision-making, the difference between opinion and fact, the role of evidence and the reasoning of any conclusions reached and recommendations made

Maintaining timely and accurate case recording in line with practice standards, managing information in line with the councils policies, procedures and guidance on data protection (40%)

Undertaking Court work and may be called upon to give evidence on behalf of the Local Authority (15%).

Participating positively in supervision, practice development and newly qualified worker scheme requirements (15%)

Degree or higher qualification in Social Work that has resulted in registration with relevant professional regulatory body for the profession

Knowledge of the legislative frameworks for child and family social work

Knowledge of child and family social work in a statutory setting

Understanding of child development, including the impact of different parenting styles on development; the impact of loss, change and uncertainty in the development of resilience and assessment of vulnerability

Essential experience Some experience of working in a child care setting, which may have been gained though student placement or voluntary or paid work

Assessing risk and need Planning and reviewing outcomes to achieve sustained change Working with service users who demonstrate challenging behaviour

Essential skills

Be able to recognise the risk indicators of different forms of harm to children including sexual, physical and emotional abuse and neglect; the impact of cumulative harm, particularly in relation to early indicators of neglect

Effective communication skills (written, verbal and use of technology)

Ability to build effective relationships in contexts that may encompass resistance to change, ambivalence or selective cooperation with services Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise competing demands