Social Worker – The HUB – Wigan – £38

Ashberry Recruitment; Wigan; On-site; GBP 1,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashberry Recruitment is seeking a qualified Children's Social Worker in Wigan to join the Children First Partnership Hub. The role involves managing complex needs and safeguarding vulnerable children, requiring excellent decision-making and organisational skills. Candidates must demonstrate experience in crisis situations and working collaboratively with partner agencies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience as a Social Worker required.
• Ability to work in a Children First Hub Partnership setting.

Responsibilities

• Make effective, timely decisions involving child protection and interventions.
• Plan and organise services, ensuring liaison with other professionals.
• Record information accurately to justify decisions and support families.

Skills

Organisational skills

Negotiation skills

Crisis management

Decision-making

Child protection

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

Children’s Social Worker – WIGAN
Team: The Hub
Rate: £38

In this role, we are looking for a qualified Social Worker with at least 3 years experience.

You should demonstrate good experience, knowledge, and skills of ability to work in our Children First Hub Partnership setting.

• You will work with a complex and diverse range of needs and risk within the Children First Partnership Hub, making effective and timely decisions involving child protection, child in need and Early Help/Start Well interventions.
• You will need/have good organisational skills to work under strict deadlines and pressure while balancing safety and risk management to ensure safe decisions are made to protect the most vulnerable children and families.
• When working with Children First Partnership Hub as the first point of contact, you will be screening Contact Records via submitted PRF forms, uploading information into Liquid Logic.
• You will be able to identify risk and make evidence based, clear, and logical decisions about levels of need, identifying appropriate interventions, and making appropriate recommendations for pathway and support.
• You will be working within Children First Partnership Hub to deliver a collaborative service and information sharing to ensure safe decision making on referrals/contacts received with our partner agencies.
• You will be working in accordance with Wigan safeguarding procedures in the identification and protection of vulnerable children to provide appropriate and tailored services.
• You will be dealing with crisis situations in families by identifying and ensuring safe decisions and care plans for vulnerable members of the community.
• You will plan and organise appropriate range of services, ensuring liaison and negotiation with other professionals statutory, and community resources to advocate best service provision for the children and their families. This responsibility requires tact and diplomacy and good negotiation skills to ‘source’ for appropriate services to address our vulnerable residents’ needs.
• You will undertake information sharing with other Local Authorities and partner agencies such as Probation, Cafcass and general tasks in relation to responding to statutory information requests.
• You will work within a statutory setting and Performance Management Framework to secure positive outcomes to meet Children and Families’ needs.
• You will be responsible for accurate recording of information to justify decisions, while evidencing multi-agency liaison.
• You will be responsible for collating information from Children First Partnership Hub partner agencies, work in partnership with parents and young persons to inform your decision making and to identify most appropriate service for Children and Families.
• You will be expected to work to statutory timescales and presenting a seamless referral process, production of high quality and evidence-based and research-based referrals to justify service provision to Wigan vulnerable children and their families.
• You will apply your comprehensive knowledge of child development, safeguarding, corporate parenting issues and the ability to undertake both planned and crisis orientated work when screening Contact Records, multi-agency liaison, interacting with external professionals and parents.
• You will be attending Team and Whole Service meetings and contribute to the evaluation and development of the Children First Partnership Hub.
• You will utilise supervision for reflective practice while taking own initiative to ensure Continuing Professional Development is met as per Social Work England and Wigan requirements.
• You will undertake tasks as directed by Senior Social Workers, Deputy Team Managers, Team Managers and Service Manager

Please contact us if this is the role for you!!