Social Worker – Dudley – Children in Care
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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Social Worker – Dudley – Children in Care
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