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Social Worker - Safeguarding

Job Posted: 9 hours ago

Salary: £ 42,771 - 45,750 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Kingston upon Thames

Expire in: a month

Job Description

We are looking to recruit a Social Worker – Support and Safeguarding Team within the Children’s Social Care industry in Kingston & Richmond on a permanent basis paying £42,771-£45,750 P/Annum + £3,000 welcome bonus and a £3,000 market supplement. 
 
Responsibilities include:

Supporting children and young people who are subject to Child Protection plans and Child in Need plans
Understanding when to transfer cases from the Safeguarding team to the Permanence team
Building strong and respectful working relationships with families, their support network and our partner agencies
Regular assessment writing, threshold application, home visits, direct work, care planning, chairing meetings and case recording in line with our policies and procedures
Ensuring that children and young people are actively involved in our work and their voice is captured in our case recording 
Experience preferred:

Strong analytical, and planning skills for assessing, and reviewing children and young people’s needs, and planning packages of care across a range of cases, able to explain professional reasoning judgements, and decision making.
Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families.
Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services and your role.
Experienced in undertaking child protection investigations and assessments of needs, assessment and appropriate management of risk and ensuring the delivery of agreed programmes of care.
Experienced in managing an allocated caseload, planning and organising workload to meet statutory timescales and local policy response appropriately and independently (as appropriate) to unanticipated problems.
Experience of planning and carrying out direct work and interventions with children, young people and parents/carers. 
Minimum Requirements:

Post qualified experience within the UK Social Care industry.
Enhanced DBS/CRB (we can obtain for you)
Eligibility to work in the UK
Active Social Work England registration and proven evidence of continuing professional development
Completion of ASYE 
Benefits of working with Ackerman Pierce: 

Your own personal consultant
Access to a variety of Social Care jobs Nationwide 
DBS and Compliance Service
Quick and Easy Registration Process
Access to CPD
Guaranteed weekly payment 
To discuss the vacancy further or any other opportunities we have in London please contact Dan Mulvey or email in your updated CV to us today. 
Job Title:  Social Worker - Safeguarding
Location: Kingston & Richmond
Salary: £42,771-£45,750 P/Annum + £3,000 welcome bonus and a £3,000 market supplement. P/Annum

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