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Qualified Social Work – Children’s Services

Social Worker - Initial Response Team

AM -PLY-IRT 001_1739464385

Cornwall, England, Devon, England

Permanent

£39513 - £43693 per annum + Relocation Fee

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Feb 13, 2025

Social worker - Initial Response Team

Location: Ballard House

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: £39,513 - £43,693

Plymouth City Council is looking for a dedicated and passionate Social Worker to join our Initial Response Service. This service plays a crucial role in providing a swift and effective social work response to families, ensuring children's safety and wellbeing, and delivering the right support when it's needed most. You will work in a fast-paced environment alongside our MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) and Targeted Help teams, providing a conversation-based approach to ensure families get the right help as soon as challenges arise.

You will be part of a team committed to building strong family networks and fostering resilience. The service works with a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and relational approach, and we are focused on improving outcomes for children and young people. The role offers the chance to contribute to safeguarding vulnerable children while developing your professional skills in a supportive and progressive environment.

Key Skills:

Safeguarding expertise: Experience in delivering high-quality interventions, assessments, and support to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children.

Partnership working: Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies to support families.

Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, with a particular focus on listening to and advocating for children and families.

Assessments and decision-making: Ability to assess complex situations and make timely decisions that safeguard children and support families.

Trauma-informed practice: Understanding of and experience in using trauma-informed, restorative, and relational approaches in social work practice.

Preferred Experience:

Safeguarding children: Experience in working with children who have experienced neglect, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, or adolescent safeguarding issues.

Family support: Experience of delivering support and interventions to families to build capacity and bring about meaningful change.

Multi-agency working: Proven ability to work collaboratively with a range of partners, including health services, schools, and voluntary organisations.

Social work assessments: Experience of conducting assessments that lead to the best possible outcomes for children and their families.

Caseload management: Ability to manage a caseload effectively, while maintaining high standards of practice.

Qualifications Required:

Social Work Degree (or equivalent).

HCPC/ Social Work England Registration.

Enhanced DBS Check (Children's and Adult's Barred List).

2 years Post-qualification experience in a relevant social work setting.

Completed ASYE

Additional Information:

Flexible working is available, subject to the needs of the service.

Relocation support: Up to £8,000 available for eligible candidates.

Training and development: Access to a dedicated Academy and opportunities for career progression, including leadership and management development.

Equal opportunities: Plymouth City Council is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Kindly use ref: AM-PLY-IRT 001 when sending your applications to [email protected]

Plymouth City Council is an equal opportunities employer. We offer guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates, care-experienced applicants, or Armed Forces Service Leavers within the last two years who meet the essential criteria for the position.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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AM -PLY-IRT 001_1739464385

Cornwall, England, Devon, England

Permanent

£39513 - £43693 per annum + Relocation Fee

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