Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to join the Children in Care Team based in Dudley. This is a great opportunity to join a progressive and engaging team.  

The Children in Care Service work flexibly and are open to discuss hours to suit the successful Social Worker.

Working for Dudley you will receive:

• Manageable cases loads
• A comprehensive learning and development package
• High quality professional supervision
• Supportive and collaborative team working
• Excellent progression opportunities
• A bespoke induction package
• Agile working including working from home opportunities and flexi time arrangements
• A permanent senior management team
• Onsite free parking
• A comprehensive and enhanced learning and development programme developed alongside the government’s new accreditation scheme and provided by our innovative Dudley Centre for Professional Practice.
• A service-wide mandatory Restorative Practice training programme with ongoing implementation of restorative practice across all services
• Excellent staff engagement opportunities with quarterly staff briefing sessions, team manager meetings, staff reference groups and weekly chief officer chats
• Generous relocation package
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• A generous annual leave entitlement
• Defined career progression and pathway opportunities
• Car sharing scheme
• A cycle purchase scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Paycare health scheme (Contributory)
• Travel pass
• Discounted leisure centre benefits

What will you be doing as a Social Worker in Dudley?

• Be part of a Restorative Practice Model to focus on building relationships, valuing people and working together to achieve positive outcomes.
• Join a small pod of social workers, managed by an experienced manager and supported by a team of pod coordinators to deal with routine administrative tasks enabling the social worker to concentrate on working with families
• Be supported by a dedicated Court Team that manages Public Law cases
• Be supported by an Advanced Social Work Practitioner link within Dudley Centre for Professional Practice in areas of practice and development as needed
• Manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs assessments, care planning and child protection investigations
• Be responsible for a caseload and work with others in your pod as you intervene together with families, to ensure the best possible outcome for children
• Carry out high quality assessments, using child-centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for children and young people
• Ensure children and young people are adequately protected in line with Dudley LSCB, departmental policy and procedures, and relevant legislation

Essential requirements of this Social Worker position:

• You must be Social Work qualified with a good level of experience in working in a children and families setting and have managed a complex case load
• Have completed section 47 investigation
• Possess a sound knowledge of legislation and guidance
• Have the ability to analyse information and make informed decisions
• Good knowledge of child development
• A clear decision maker and good team worker
• A current Enhanced DBS and registration with Social Work England
• Social Work England registered, and the legal right to work in the UK

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