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Children's Social Worker

Job Description

Children's Social Worker

Telford & Wrekin council are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Children's Social Worker to join their family safeguarding team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage a caseload with various levels of complexity
  • Lead on complex assessments and provide evidence as necessary in court proceedings
  • Practice effectively, exercising high-quality judgements in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty, and challenge in Children's Services, acting with confidence and considerable autonomy
  • Assess situations effectively, determine which interventions, knowledge and skills should be deployed, and anticipate the possible progress of issues and options without pre-judging
  • Integrate professional knowledge, the views of people using services, and research/evaluation evidence into practice
  • Use knowledge and skills to take more initiative and continue to broaden and deepen a broad repertoire of responses
  • Have expertise in one or more areas of practice, be familiar with and linked into local and national resource networks

Requirements

  • Qualified Social Worker with relevant experience
  • Social Work England registration
  • Enhanced DBS
  • Access to own car

How to apply

If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - Christopher.richardson@servicecare.org.uk

If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £350.

The benefits of working with SCS:

  • A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
  • Exceptional referral bonuses - £350 per referral placed in to work!
  • An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
  • Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
  • Payroll service twice a week.
  • Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
  • Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
  • Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
  • DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.