Children's Social Worker – Safeguarding

Interim Children's Social Worker – Safeguarding
Reference no: Walsall (HQ) TCL WC15445
Pay rate: £21.96 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 9-12 months
City: WALSALL
Hybrid working, days in the office will depend on family needs and visits
Enhanced DBS required for this role
An experienced qualified Children's Social Worker is required to work within the Family Safeguarding Team. Experience in safeguarding is required for this role. Family case load is currently at an allocation of around 16.
Key responsibilities:
Work with families on child in need and child protection plans.
Work with children in care whilst care proceedings ongoing.
Long term care planning and adoption work.
Practice within the prevailing legislative framework and council policies and procedures, under the supervision of the Team Manager.
Ensure that work is completed within the stated timescales in accordance with both national and local policy.
Manage a mixed workload, including working with vulnerable children, young people, families and carers who experience complex problems.
Ensure needs are met and risks are managed to achieve best outcomes for children and young people.
Advocate for children and young people and ensure their voices are heard and they are supported to participate in a variety of ways and forums as is appropriate to their needs, age and development
Provide high quality and timely assessments and reports in the agreed format for Courts, Child Protection Case Conferences, Statutory Child in Care Reviews and any other forum as directed.
Work collaboratively with and develop good working relationships with individual children and young people, families, carers, colleagues and other agencies. Maintain records in relation to recording information about children and families in line with Council policy and procedure.
Undertake safeguarding investigations, attend strategy meetings, case conferences and reviews as the lead professional where required.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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