Social Worker

POWYS COUNTY COUNCIL; United States; Remote; USD 37,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Powys County Council’s 14+ Through Care Team supports Children Looked After as they move from adolescence to adulthood, focusing on wellbeing, stability and educational achievement. The team collaborates with parents, carers and professionals to secure positive outcomes.

The role requires safeguarding awareness, risk identification and the ability to work with a range of agencies, while also supporting independence and resilience in young people. Enhanced DBS is required.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with adolescents with challenging behaviour.
• Ability to identify risk and manage complex situations.
• Strong assessment and written skills.
• Team player with ability to work with professionals from different agencies.
• Willingness to undergo Enhanced DBS clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide a social work service to young people to keep them safe and help them achieve their potential.
• Work as part of a team on a duty roster and provide cover for colleagues.
• Foster good working relationships with colleagues and partners to enable effective team working.
• Identify risk issues and ensure safeguarding measures are in place to minimise risk.

Skills

Adolescents engagement

Risk assessment

Written communication

Team collaboration

Interagency liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree in Social Work

Job description

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.

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.

This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check