Job Description

Our client Devon county council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Fostering Duty team.

All Experienced Social Workers have the following responsibilities:

• To safeguard children and young people and adults at risk.
• To take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive, and support others to adopt that approach.
• To gather information from service users, informal networks and other agencies to analyse, summarise and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of needs, balancing risk and protective factors.
• To formulate and produce outcome-focused plans with clear aims and objectives (within the context of managing risk), and support others to do so.
• To maintain case records, keeping them up to date and to provide concise and accurate information about a service user's circumstances and plans. Make use of IT systems provided by the Service, complying with policy and procedures.
• To manage a workload of complex cases and organise work activities; taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, working to timescales and meeting national and local performance expectations.
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team, wider service area and partner agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
• To ensure that all necessary communications and referrals are made to relevant agencies, working together with them to promote the wellbeing of children, young people and/or adults at risk and best outcomes for them.
• To convene and chair multi-disciplinary meetings including those where adegree of challenge or conflict is expected; or where the meeting may contribute to the evidence which will support legal proceedings.
• To share information with other agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults at risk.
• To demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and national/local policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice. Apply legal reasoning, using professional legal expertise and advice appropriately, recognising where scope for professional judgement exists

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.