Children Social Worker - Children With Disabilities

We have a great opportunity for a Children Social Worker in the Greater Manchester area to join the amazing and developing Children with Disabilities Team in Bury. This is an exciting specialist social work team, working with some of the most severely disabled children and their families, working with children in need, children subject to child protection plans, looked after children, care proceedings and Children with a plan of adoption.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced Social Worker who has experience of working with children, young people and their families and is committed to achieving good outcomes for Children with Disabilities.

Fantastic pay rate of £35 per hour.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working.
• Competitive rates of pay.
• Weekly pay.
• One committed and dedicated point of contact.
• An unlimited referrals incentive, giving you a £300 voucher for anyone you refer to us (T&Cs apply).
• A full range of free training available.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• Degree in Social Care.
• Social Work England registration.
• Experience in a relevant field.
• Knowledge of theory and practice of care assessment, planning and detailed knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and its application.
• Supervisory skills, as may supervise students, trainees, support staff and volunteers.
• Analytic, planning and communication skills.

If you have any further questions, or wish to apply for this role then please contact Jacob on otherwise Apply Below and I will be in touch soon.

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.

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