Advanced Social Worker | Duty Team | South Gloucestershire Council *
Qualified Advanced Social Worker / Social Work Professional required to join a statutory Front Door Children's Social Care and Preventative Services.Hybrid workingOffice base: Badminton Road Council Offices*You must have a social work qualification and full SWE registration as well as relevant experience to be considered£41 per hourIf you are interested in discussing this position in more detail, or you would like to register with Caritas for work, please call Anton Mostert on 07824534126 or email [email protected]
To be considered, it is essential that you have a recognised Social Work qualification (Social Work Degree or Diploma in Social Work) and full Social Work England registration as well as recent or significant relevant experience in a similar role.
We are currently seeking an advanced Social Worker to join the Front Door of South Gloucestershire Council's Children's Social Care and Preventative Services. This role is hybrid with a need to be in the local authority to visit families and come to the office as well as home working. There is no accommodation costs or travel expenses paid to and from your home and work base.
We are pleased to say that we provide an Ofsted rated 'Good' service, we are seeking additional driven professionals to help us to collectively maintain and build on this for the ongoing betterment of the children and young people of South Gloucestershire. We have a strong culture of giving staff the time, freedom and support to explore new and better ways of doing things, so we're looking for individuals keen to use their creativity to deliver high quality, child-centred practices, which ensure the best outcomes for children and families.
The Response Team sits within the Front Door of our Integrated Children's Service. You will be assessing and managing risk where there is possible, or actual, significant harm to children to ensure that children are kept safe and protected from abuse. You will be undertaking statutory assessments of cases meeting the threshold for social care intervention, this includes child protection investigations. A qualified social worker with relevant registration to practice and a good understanding of asset and strengths based approaches to social work. You will have already successfully completed your ASYE (where qualifying since 2012)You will be able to evidence significant skills, knowledge and experience to be able to assess and manage risk for the most vulnerable children in the community. You will be able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of successful strategies to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.A problem solver, confident about making important decisions, underpinned by a genuine passion to work collaboratively with children, young people and families to meet their goals and aspirations .
Caritas Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency for Qualified Social Workers at all levels. We supply Qualified Social Work staff to over 150 local authorities, UK wide, on a permanent and temporary (locum/contract) basis. If you know of someone who might be interested in this vacancy please ask them to get in touch; we offer a £300 referral bonus scheme for each friend/colleague you refer plus an additional £500 on your fifth referral!
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