Children's Social Worker - Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children Team

Our Client, Trafford Council, is seeking a Children’s Social Worker to join their Team.

Fantastic payrate of £35 per hour!

Are you a Childrens Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

• Provide a purposeful, professional social work service within a multi-agency partnership approach to children in need and their families, including the assessment of their needs, in accordance with statutory requirements and within the service procedures/guidelines.
• Understand and identify pathways for children at the right level for their need and that of their family
• Use the threshold agreement to identify risk, supporting partners working with families to manage risk and support change that safeguards children and can be sustained in their daily life.
• Undertake purposeful professional assessments with families which consider child’s needs, presenting risks, and protective factors with clear analysis and plan to support the required changes change.
• Work directly with families employing a range of social work knowledge and skills to identify and assess the parents capability to meet each individual children and young person’s social, emotional, educational, occupational, recreational and cultural needs to bring about sustainable improvement and better outcomes for children
• Keep all recordings up to date and child focused, reflecting the voice of the child and impact of their daily lived experience. Ensure there is clarity of the source of information and detail what is fact and what is professional judgement within appropriate timescales
• Ensure that all assessments and formal documents are completed accurately and are written clearly and concisely avoiding jargon. Assess,
• evaluate and review programmes of work with children, young people and families including the coordination of services to children who are the subjects of multi-agency protection plans or who are children in care and their families.
• Attend multi-agency meetings, reviews and conferences as required and represent the Local Authority in Private and Public Law proceedings.

Requirements of this role:

• Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
• Must have a Social Work qualification (Diploma in social work, social work degree or equivalent)
• Must have minimum of 3 years experience working as a Qualified social worker

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

• Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
• Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
• Free CV building and Interview support.
• Free DBS checks.
• Weekly payroll.
• PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
• CPD contributions.
• Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
• Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!