Social Worker (14+ Through Care Team)

Powys County Council; Wales; Vor Ort; GBP 34.000 - 42.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Powys County Council in North Powys is recruiting a Social Worker for the 14+ Through Care Team. You will support looked-after children as they move into adulthood, focusing on wellbeing, education, safety and positive outcomes, within a multidisciplinary setting.

You will work as part of a team and handle duties such as duty coverage, safeguarding, and building relationships with professionals to manage risk and meet needs.

Qualifikationen

• Strong assessment and written skills.
• Ability to identify risk and manage complex situations.
• Passion for helping disadvantaged young people to achieve positive outcomes.
• Willingness to learn about Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.

Aufgaben

• Provide a social work service to young people to keep them safe and enable potential.
• Work as part of a team, with rota duties and covering for colleagues.
• Foster good relationships with colleagues and partner agencies to enable effective team work.
• Identify risk issues and ensure safeguarding measures are in place to minimise risk.

Kenntnisse

Engaging adolescents

Risk assessment

Written skills

Team player

Flexible attitude

Jobbeschreibung

14+ Through Care Team
About the role:
The 14+ Through Care Team focuses on supporting our Children Looked After during their adolescence and into adulthood.
We try to ensure wellbeing, stability, educational achievement, safety and positive outcomes for all of our Children Looked After through working collaboratively with them, parents/carers and professionals. We are an established team consisting of Social Workers, Personal Advisors, Support Workers and a Team Co- Ordinator who assists with various tasks including organising and minuting meetings, preparing chronologies and general business support.
About you:
A passion for helping to support disadvantaged young people to be able to achieve positive outcomes.
Key skills in engaging with, and building a rapport with, adolescents who may be difficult to engage and display challenging behaviour.
The ability to identify risk and manage complex situations.

Strong assessment and written skills.
To be a team player with the ability to work with a range of professionals from different agencies but also the ability to work independently as required. A flexible approach to working and a can do attitude.
Knowledge and skills, or the willingness to learn, around working with
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.

What you will do:
To provide a social work service to young people with a view to keeping them safe and enabling them to achieve to their fullest potential.
To work as part of a team, undertaking tasks on a duty rotational basis, and providing cover for absent colleagues.
To foster and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and partners that enable the team to work effectively.
To identify risk issues in relation to the circumstances of individual children, and to ensure that there is safeguarding in place in order to minimise risk.

Social Worker (14+ Through Care Team) North Powys, GB