Are you an experienced Children and Families Services Social Worker looking for a permanent opportunity?
Are you looking to make a difference within Children's Services?
As well as working with a top local authority, they are able to offer an attractive package.
Benefits of the brilliant rewards package include:
Permanent applications only (salary range £49,428 - £52, 420 including £5,000
annual enhancement)
Full time Practitioner Managers aka senior practitioners/assistant team managers.
Workers must be able to travel to the Vale as needed.
We offer a hybrid and flexible working model. Across all services and teams we are very
clear that workloads need to be manageable to enable workers to support families in the
best way possible, and to support work life balance and sustainability in the workforce.
Responsibilities:
Intake Team
... - This role includes responsibility for initial child protection and court work, before transfer to longer-term teams.
- This team has experienced instability in its staffing, and we have recently considerably expanded in order to meet demand. We are committed to continuing the improvement journey and are keen to establish management consistency.
- This team completes a range of assessments, conducts section 47 enquiries and
establishes whether longer term plans are needed for families. They also are involved in issuing court proceedings where needed. The priority for this team is assessing what is needed to support children and families, if anything and then moving this support to the right team. Families will be transferred to our family support teams if intervention is longer than 3 months. This is a fast paced team where every day is different.
- Workers in this team need to be able to offer empathetic support to families who have just been referred into Child and Young People Services. Families in these circumstances are often in crisis and as such workers need to be calm, and child focussed when things are unpredictable.
- We are aiming for workers in this team to work with a maximum of 20 - 22 children at any one time, but this may be less depending on the complexity of the work. There are family aides (workers who offer practical support), social care officers and business support to help with the work in this team.
This could be the perfect position in which to realise your career goals.
Who do you know that may be interested in this role? A £300 referral bonus is available - subject to Ts and Cs.
Requirements:
- Social Work qualification
- Registered with Social Work Wales, or will process an application
- Car driver
Why let this opportunity slip through your fingers?
Do you have some more questions regarding this or any other role?
If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887/ for a confidential discussion. If you are happy to move forward with the process and are successful to be put forward for this role, a conversation can also be arranged with the Manager to discuss the details about the position further. This gives you the opportunity to ask more questions and to assess if this is the right role for you.
Being a preferred supplier to numerous local authorities and NHS trusts, we can give you access to a wide range of vacancies. Are you thinking about a change in your career? Whether you are an existing locum or you are new to the locum market and are exploring your options, we have opportunities that are exciting, well paid and flexible.
I have over 20 years experience recruiting within the healthcare market. If this particular role does not sound quite right for you, we have a wide selection of roles across the country that may not be advertised. We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
