Children's Senior Social Worker/Senior Practitioner

Supply Care Solutions are looking for a Children's Senior Social Worker/Senior Practitioner in Oxfordshire

SALARY : 36,648.00 - 46,464.00 per annum
TYPE : PERMANENT
TEAM : Looked After Children
HOURS : This is a Full time role (37 hours per week), Hybrid working

• To provide professional social work to a caseload of children, young people, and families, appropriate to experience and capabilities, ensuring their views are heard.
• To ensure the highest of professional standards and good overall knowledge of relevant law, legislation, and practice in line with the values and principles of FSP and the Council's Threshold of Needs and Practice Standards.
• To ensure provision of good quality services which integrate government and local guidance and initiatives including, Children Acts 1989 & 2004, Working Together, local Child Protection and Looked After Children procedures, and the DoH, Assessment Framework 2000.
• The nature of this post will require flexibility to meet urgent priorities as they arise. This may entail some work outside normal office hours on occasion. The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude, to undertake a range of tasks in line with the needs of the service and support other services within the Front Door as and when needed.
• To provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people, and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed, and that relevant interventions are provided where needed, in a timely way.
• To work with families using the FSP Workbook modules, and a strengths-based approach.
• To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including child protection conference reports and legal reports for care proceedings.
• To attend conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting plans clearly, with professionalism and integrity.
• To ensure the Assistant /Team Manager is kept fully appraised of significant information about allocated families, seeking advice as and when necessary.
• To attend group/case supervision when required and to ensure that relevant updates are provided before each group supervision session. flexible attitude, to undertake a range of tasks in line with the needs of the service and support other services within the Front Door as and when needed.

Qualified Social Worker Requirements

• CSW/CQSW/DipSW/BA/MA in Social Work
• Proven post qualifying experience in working with childrens services
• Current Social Worker England registration
• Current Enhanced DBS Disclosure
• Commitment to the safe care and well-being of vulnerable people

If you are interested in this position please apply online or call us on (phone number removed)

Supply Care Solutions have a number of locum jobs across the UK. All locums must be contract compliant before commencing work through our agency. We are recruiting professionals across all specialisms and grade. We offer an excellent referral bonus for any new worker you refer to us Terms and conditions apply. Supply Care Solutions works in conjunction with Monitor/TDA rate caps