Child Protection Social Worker – Thurrock

Social Personnel are looking for an enthusiastic Children’s Social Worker to join Thurrock’s Child Protection Service.

Duties:

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, monitoring and review functions for all allocated children and families.
• To be conversant with operational and practice issues pertaining to the delivery of frontline social work services for children, young people and their Parents/Carers.
• To undertake Initial and Core Assessments of children and families in accordance with the Assessment Framework, ensuring that they are completed in a timely manner and include an analysis of the needs and circumstances of each child and family, the desired outcomes to be achieved and the services that are required.
• To ensure that every allocated child has an up to date and outcome focused Plan that clearly states the action, responsible professional(s) and agreed time scale for completion.
• To ensure that all allocated children are visited, spoken to/communicated with and monitored in accordance with statutory and procedural requirements and in line with best practice standards.
• To ensure that all direct work undertaken with children/young people is purposeful, sensitive, respectful and honest.
• To ensure that all correspondence and written notes detailing the outcomes and decisions from meetings with children/young people and Parents/Carers are distributed promptly.
• To prepare and present reports for a range of purposes, including child protection conferences, child looked after reviews and court, and ensures that these are produced to a high quality standard.

What you need:

• QSW Status – including qualification, Social Work England registration and completed ASYE
• A minimum of 2 years experience in child-based teams.
• Right to work in the UK.

Benefits of working with Social Personnel:

• Access to the best roles across the UK earlier than other agencies; Social Personnel are a top Tier 1 agency through many of local authorities and trusts nationwide
• A way to give back to charitable organisations/disadvantaged young people, through our partnership with Youth at Risk, now known as GRIT
• Your weekly payment processed even if it misses the weekly approval cut-off for the 1st week – ending delays payments to you
• Training and development opportunities which meet the needs of your career and are tailored to you
• A market leading £250 referral bonus, for referring your colleagues to work for Social Personnel
• Highly experienced recruitment consultant and dedicated aftercare team
• Boat Parties, prize giveaways and many, many more…

If you are interested in this position please submit application or call Poppi on 07767553015