Social Worker (Unprogressed) - Children's Records Team

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; À distance; GBP 32 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Newcastle City Council is seeking a motivated Social Worker to join the Specialist Children’s Records Team. You will review records, analyse sensitive information and help determine what can be disclosed in a lawful, safe and respectful manner.

Working with Children & Families Newcastle, you will collaborate with colleagues across services and partner agencies to ensure timely, high-quality decisions, while upholding dignity and the rights of children, families, and care-experienced adults.

Qualifications

• Recognised Social Work qualification and Social Work England registration.
• Experience of working with children, young people and families.
• Good knowledge of children’s social care legislation, safeguarding and statutory guidance.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills.
• Excellent written communication and recording skills; ability to work with sensitive information.
• Commitment to relational, restorative and strengths-based practice.

Responsabilités

• Review children’s social care records and prepare information for disclosure.
• Analyse sensitive information and contribute to decisions about what can be shared safely and appropriately.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Children's Services and partner agencies.
• Apply legislation, statutory guidance, policy and local procedures to your work.
• Help ensure requests are managed effectively and within statutory timescales.
• Maintain accurate records and high professional standards.
• Contribute to service development and continuous improvement.
• Promote people’s rights and keep their experiences at the centre of your work.

Connaissances

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Relationship-based practice

Safeguarding

Record keeping

Teamwork

Formation

Social Work qualification

Registration with Social Work England

Description du poste

Our vision is for Newcastle to be a great place to grow up, where every child and young person is safe and loved, healthy and happy, and ready for their next steps.

We're looking for a motivated and thoughtful social worker to join our specialist Children's Records Team. This is an exciting opportunity to use your social work skills in a different way, supporting children, young people, care-experienced adults and families to access information about their lives while developing expertise in a specialist and growing area of practice.

About the Role

Every year, people contact Children's Social Care seeking access to records that form part of their personal story. For many, this information can help them better understand their childhood, family history, identity and experiences.

As a Social Worker within the Children's Records Team, you will review records, analyse sensitive information and contribute to professional decisions about what can be shared safely, lawfully and appropriately. You will work closely with experienced colleagues, teams across Children's Services and partner agencies to ensure requests are managed to a high standard and within statutory timescales.

This role offers the opportunity to build specialist knowledge while continuing to apply the values, skills and professional curiosity that are central to good social work practice. As part of Children & Families Newcastle, you will contribute to our Families First vision and our commitment to treating children, families and care-experienced adults with dignity, compassion and respect.

Who We're Looking For

• A recognised Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration
• Experience of working with children, young people and families
• Good knowledge of children's social care legislation, safeguarding and statutory guidance
• Strong analytical and organisational skills
• Excellent written communication and recording skillsThe ability to work confidently and respectfully with sensitive and confidential information
• Professional curiosity, attention to detail and sound judgement
• A commitment to relational, restorative and strengths-based practice

What You'll Do

• Review children's social care records and prepare information for disclosure
• Analyse sensitive information and contribute to decisions about what can be shared safely and appropriately
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Children's Services and partner agencies
• Apply legislation, statutory guidance, policy and local procedures to your work
• Help ensure requests are managed effectively and within statutory timescales
• Maintain accurate records and high professional standards
• Contribute to service development and continuous improvement
• Promote people's rights and keep their experiences at the centre of your work

Why We Think There Is Nowhere Better

At Newcastle, we're committed to creating a culture where people feel supported, valued and able to do their best work. Through our Families First transformation, we're building services around relationships, strengths and partnership working. We invest in our workforce, value professional expertise and encourage innovation, reflection and continuous learning.

Working with us includes:

• A dedicated 5-day induction
• Generous annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• A range of flexible working options, including opportunities for part-time working
• A generous Flexi Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential advice and support
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme
• Access to a home electronics scheme and vehicle leasing scheme

If you're looking for a fresh challenge and the opportunity to develop expertise in a unique area of children's social care, we'd love to hear from you.

We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Amy Furniss, Social Care Assurance and Quality of Practice Lead [e-mail]