qualified social worker.

Benefits:

• A caring, supportive stable management group
• Visible senior management team
• Monthly personal and case supervisions and appraisals
• Monthly reflective discussions and peer audit development sessions
• Investment from management around continued development
• Manageable Caseloads
• Support from the workforce development team
• Emotional well-being support with access to health and wellbeing services such as counselling
• Training through Middlesbrough Learns
• Flexible working with a mix of office and home-based working
• Practice and positivity weeks quarterly to celebrate good practice.
• Electric Car Scheme
• Market supplement of 15% in addition to competitive salary
• Generous Annual Leave, 27 days rising to 32 after five years' service
• Pension Scheme

Duties/Responsibilities:

• To provide and enable the Department to provide an efficient and effective social work service to children in need and their families.
• Manage a complex caseload.
• To develop professional skills in working with children and young people to understand their journey, day-to-day life and to promote their voice through direct work and recording of this.
• To complete assessments of children and their families, utilising the Assessment Framework, other assessment tools, theory and research to underpin this. Alongside developing skills in understanding and managing risk.
• To devise SMART plans and develop strategies of intervention with parents and carers to promote positive outcomes.
• To assess, evaluate and review programmes of work with service users, including the coordination and organisation of services both within and outside the Department.
• To complete visits to children and families within the guidelines of the Departments policies and procedures and ensure these are recorded promptly.
• To plan, implement and review care plans for children looked after to ensure permanence plans are in place.

Requirements:

• Social Work England registered
• Social Work Degree or equivalent
• Enhanced DBS

Experience:

Childrens Social Work

If you have any further questions or wish to apply for this role then please get in touch with Bikram on 0330 024 8775 otherwise Apply Below and I will be in touch soon.

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