Social Worker

Opus People Solutions Ltd; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in social services seeks a qualified Social Worker to join their team in Walsall. In this part-time role, you will provide essential social work services to vulnerable children and families while enhancing their life chances. You will manage a mixed workload, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, and contribute to safeguarding efforts. The role requires resilience, a passion for supporting children, and a commitment to collaboration with families and other agencies.

Qualifications

• 3 years Social Work experience required.
• Registered with Social Work England.

Responsibilities

• Manage small allocation of children with reflective supervision.
• Carry out effective assessment and planning of social work services to children and families.
• Attend strategy meetings and perform safeguarding investigations.

Skills

Resilience

Commitment to supporting children and families

UK driving license

Education

Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England

Job description

3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Hourly Rate: 33.30

Part Time: 22.5 Hours

Work Pattern: Hybrid

Key Requirements

• Manage small allocation of children reflective supervision of the family support worker.
• To carry out effective assessment, planning and delivery of social work services to children and families whilst enhancing and promoting life chances to those groups of children and young people that Walsall Council has responsibility for.
• To provide quality social work services to children in need and their families in accordance with legal requirements, departmental policies and procedures.
• Practice social work accountably, within the prevailing legislative framework and council policies and procedures, under the supervision of the Team Manager.
• Ensure that all work is completed within the stated timescales in accordance with both national and local policy.
• Manage a mixed workload including challenging cases that involve vulnerable children and families with complex problems.
• Undertake safeguarding investigations, attend strategy meetings, case conferences and reviews as required and if appropriate perform the lead professional role.
• To ensure needs are met and risks are managed to achieve best outcomes for individual children and young people within the context of achieving best value and effective use of resources, under the direction of the Team Manager.
• Work collaboratively with develop good working relationships with individual children, families, carers, colleagues and other agencies.
• Provide high quality and timely assessments and reports in the agreed format for Courts, Child Protection Case Conference, Statutory Reviews and any other forum as directed by the Team Manager.
• Complete life journey work

Skills:

• A qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Committed to supporting children, young people and their families and has the resilience to go that extra mile to ensure they achieve their potential.
• UK driving license

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Government Relations Services and Non-profit Organizations

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