Qualified Social Worker – Practice Development Support – Child Protection

Qualified Social Worker
Practice Development Support 
Child Protection
Location: West Midlands
Pay rate:  £42.43

We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join a dedicated Child Protection  Team as a Practice Development Support.  You will be supported by an experienced team manager.  Our client has a strong and positive culture in this West Midlands local authority, which we would love you to be a part of.  They offer regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision.  It would be ideal if you have auditing and evaluation experience. This would be hybrid working, approximately two days per week in local authority,  depending on service need. The post holder will support the role out of the new quality assurance framework across childrens services. The post holder will be working in conjunction with managers and practitioners to improve service delivery through regular thematic practice evaluations whilst embedding the  learning.

This will enable the Children’s Services and the Children’s Leadership Team to monitor the quality of social work practice and identify good practice and areas for improvement. It will also enable the City Council to be assured that practice is compliant with statutory responsibilities and that children are kept safe and outcomes achieved and will be integral to supporting children to receive a good to outstanding quality service. 

Focusing on the development of quality in practice, setting standards and the conditions required for successful social work by motivating and nurturing staff, taking responsibility for the practice of social workers, social work assistants, team co-ordinators and students. You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
• Experience working within, Court, Children in Need and Child Protection.

• Supporting child and families subject CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings and court proceedings 

• Understand factors that impact children including abuse and neglect 

• Undertake Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision making, planning and review 
• Undertake effective direct work with children and families 

• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
• 2 Years plus Qualified

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from Nottingham, Walsall, Newark on Trent, Loughbourgh, Leicester, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Lincoln, Nuneaton, Granthon, Derby, Peterbourgh, Birmingham, Bloxwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth,  Shropshire, Coventry,  Worcester, Telford, Stafford, Sheffield, Welshpool, Hereford, Leicester, Sheffield, Wrexham Newcastle-under-lyme, Burton-upon-Trent, Wolverhampton, Lichfeild, Solihull, Stoke, Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Sutton, Coldfield, West Bromwich, Walsall, Lichfield, Telford, Hinckley.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Family Support Children in Need, Duty and Assessment, Child Protection, Educational Psychologist, Practice Development Support, Children Looked After, Early Intervention,  Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager, Advanced Practioner and Assistant Team Manager.
 
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