Sanctuary Social Care is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker/Family Service Worker to work full-time in Cheshire. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Children's Services and be registered with Social Work England.
The pay rate for this locum Social Worker/Family Service Worker job is £15.38 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
Duties of the Social Worker/Family Service Worker:
- Work in partnership across Children's Services and with other agencies to deliver a suite of programmes that are targeted and co-ordinated.
- Enable families to receive appropriate and timely interventions across the 0-19 age continuum at a time and place that makes sense to these families by planning delivering and reviewing interventions as appropriate.
- Deliver a comprehensive range of evidence-based programmes, making appropriate use of supervision and training to develop skills and knowledge.
- Collect relevant data to ensure performance management systems facilitate a need led approach.
- Identify and support children and families experiencing difficulties at an early stage, assisting in the monitoring and evaluation of services to ensure that they are meeting the needs of individuals and families enabling service delivery that encourages empowerment.
- Actively seek and act upon the views of service users.
- Undertake holistic assessments of family situations using the relevant assessment tools and plan, deliver and review individual programmes of support; ensuring that 'vulnerable' children and young people, especially those families who are harder to reach, are prioritised in terms of receipt of services.
- Maintain effective record systems to enable the preparation of necessary reports as requested.
- Understand and comply with statutory requirements, departmental policies, equal opportunities and other regulations and procedures.
- Escalate and seek advice on any issues relating to safeguarding
Requirements of the Social Worker/Family Service Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant senior level frontline experience within Children's Services
Contact:
This Social Worker/Family Service Worker job is advertised by Vaughan Graham; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
