Social Workers

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

CPD time (6 days)

Relocation package

Pay progression scheme

Retention payments up to £8,392 (3 yrs

Refer a Friend £350

CARE Academy for Excellence

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking Social Workers for the Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) Team in Huntingdon. You will work with children and young people, leading safeguarding activities and holistic assessments to support their needs and futures, with the child’s voice central to all actions.

The role offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for CPD through the Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence, while contributing to the Leaving Care service’s

Qualifications

• Be a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration.
• Ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead professional, ensuring safeguarding matters are dealt with promptly and in line with child protection procedures.
• Undertake assessments to identify needs, including age assessments (Merton compliant) and Human Rights assessments.
• Develop empowering relationships with children, young people and families to facilitate change and outcomes.
• Produce reports and plans for forums including court, reflecting the child’s voice and experience.

Skills

Social worker

Travel readiness

Education

Social Work degree

Job description

We have an exciting vacancy in our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children's (UASC) Team for two Social Workers. For more details about the role please see the below., Do you have a passion for, and experience in, supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, their needs, experiences, and their future? Are you enthusiastic and have the childs voice at the heart of everything you do? Join us in our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) team! Our team is made up of Social Workers and Personal Advisors and lead on all aspects of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young peoples experiences from the point that they come to Cambridgeshire. Recognising the trauma, challenges, and loss our children and young people have been through, whilst being able to undertake holistic assessments of their needs (including age assessments where necessary) and support them through the immigration system, whilst also being ambitious for their future. Based in Scott House, Huntingdon, no two days are the same and we have fantastic ambitions for this team within the Leaving Care service., We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

Benefits

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• Scalable retention payments of up to £8,392 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment
• ARefer a Friend Schemewhere if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, well pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

Duties

What will you be doing? Acting as the lead professional, youll ensure all matters in respect of safeguarding are dealt with promptly, effectively and in line with child protection procedures, escalating where necessary. Youll undertake assessments to identify and respond to needs, building on strength and ensuring that analysis is robust and leads to clear outcomes that can be met through SMART targets. These include Brief Enquiries (age assessment), Full Merton Compliant Age assessments and Human Rights assessments. You Will develop effective and empowering relationships, engaging with children, young people, and their families, which will facilitate change and improve outcomes. With the childs voice at the heart of your work, youll produce reports and plans for a variety of forums, including court, which are child focussed and reflect their experience.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Requirements

• Be aqualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Havethe ability towork from a variety of locations and travel countywide, and out of county, independently

We have a wide range of great benefits if you join us as a colleague at Cambridgeshire County Council. To find out more please see below., Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.