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SalaryChildrens Social Worker - Safeguarding Team
Location: Leatherhead
Reporting to: Service Manager
Salary: 29-35ph
Contract: Ongoing
Qualifications needed - Social Work degree or equivalent and ASYE completion
About the role:
You will have the responsibility of managing a caseload of children, with varying levels of need and complexity. This includes regular assessment writing, threshold application, home visits, direct work, care planning, chairing meetings, and case recording in line with our policies and procedures.
Working collaboratively with specialist workers based within the service to drive forward positive and sustainable change for families in creative ways. The Families First model is focused on preventing case escalation and keeping children safely at home.
Safeguarding Social Workers have quick and direct access to Social Work Assistants, Family Support Workers, Family Coaches, Domestic Abuse Victim and Perpetrator specialists, Adult Mental Health specialists, Drug and Alcohol specialists, and a Systemic Family Psychotherapist.
You will have easy access to your line manager, reflective supervision every four weeks and the opportunity to work within a supportive team environment.
Our client works within a Signs of Safety Practice model. We strive to work alongside children and families to ensure they know why we are involved and what needs to change to make things safer for all.
We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience. If you have any convictions/cautions, this does not mean you cannot apply for any of our roles, however, we do require a DBS for all positions.
We will ensure that any positive disclosures on DBS records are discussed with candidates and fairly assessed by an internal panel
SAFEGUARDING: Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people who are potentially at risk, and we therefore expect all staff and volunteers to do the same. We require all staff to undertake internal and external safeguarding training throughout their employment with our client.
