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Our client Luton council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Children looked after team.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Carry a caseload of complex cases requiring a high level of professional skill, providing assessment, care management and other social work services relevant to the needs of the most vulnerable/at risk children and families. Require and maintain unallocated cases
• Under the direction of the Team Manager, using professional skills and experience to provide practice management to team members to ensure compliance with national and departmental policies, procedures and quality standards.
• Undertake research, training and development activities as required for the department and for the post holders' own professional development
• When agreed by Team Manager and in co-operation with the Training Section, undertake specific tasks to support and enable team members in the development of skill and the acquisition of knowledge and information relevant to the team tasks or to the professional development of team members
• As and when agreed by the Team Manager, undertake the role of practice teacher for students undergoing professional training who are on placement in the Department
• In consultation with the Team Manager and with other Team Managers who will assume Management responsibility for the Team, provide cover for some day to day duties during periods of annual leave or other absences of the Team Manager.
• When requested by the Team Manager represent the Department in its working relationships with other Agencies where issues of professional social work practice are under consideration
• Chair meetings including child protection strategy meetings when required.

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.

Our client Bolton Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Looked after children team.

Main Duties

• Prepare for social work contact and involvement
• Work with individual families, carers, groups and communities to help them make informed decisions
• Assess needs and options to recommend a course of action
• Respond to crisis situations using appropriate legal procedural intervention
• Work with individuals, families, carers, group's communities and professionals to achieve change and development to improve life opportunities
• Prepare, produce, implement and evaluate plans with individuals, families, carers, groups, communities and professional colleagues
• Support the development of networks to meet assessed needs and planned outcomes
• Work with groups to promote individual growth, development and independence
• Address behaviour, which presents a risk to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities.
• Advocate with, and on behalf of, individuals, families, carers, groups and communities.
• Prepare for, and participate in decision-making forums
• Assess and manage risks to individuals, families, carers, groups and communities. Assess, minimise and manage risk to self and colleagues
• Manage and be accountable for your own work

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.

Our client Shropshire Council is looking for a Children's Senior Practitioner to join their Children looked after team.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Social Worker / Senior Social Worker within the Children Looked After Service, you will be responsible for:

• Maintaining your personal performance with the support of your Team Manager.
• Undertaking a range of assessments informed by direct intervention with children and families.
• Progressing children's care and pathway plans, by ensuring that they are accessing the right level of service at the right time.
• Undertaking statutory visits to children placed at home, in foster care, and within residential provisions in accordance with CLA requirements.
• Case management and co-ordinating a range of meetings including care planning, risk management, placement stability, PEP's, and review meetings.
• Providing children and families with information and advice to assist in resolving problems.
• Some court work relating to revocation of care orders, SGO and placement order applications, as required.
• Participating in the team's duty system.
• Maintaining computerised records and documentation in accordance with approved policies and procedures.
• Collaborative working with parents, guardians, and other professionals

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.

We are looking to recruit a Qualified Social Worker - Looked After Children's Team within the Social Care industry in Bexley. The successful candidate will be working in a well-structured, organised team who are growing their social worker staffing levels. Qualified Social Worker - Looked After Children vacancy in Bexley will be for an initial 3-6 months with potential for extension subject to internal circumstance and your performance.

Responsibilities include:

• Pathway Planning
• Attending Adoption Panels
• Standard Case Management
• LAC Reviews
• Section 20 care orders
• Attending Court
• Court Reports

• Post qualifying experience of working as a Qualified Social Worker - Looked After Children Team within the UK Social Care industry.

• SWE Registration
• 1-2 years post qualifying experience within the UK Social Care industry
• Enhanced DBS/CRB (we can obtain for you)
• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Your own personal consultant
• Access to a variety of Social Care jobs Nationwide
• Tier 1 agency
• DBS and Compliance Service
• Quick and Easy Registration Process
• Access to CPD
• Guaranteed weekly payment

Social Worker - Looked After Children - Blackburn - 40 per hour

Caritas are currently recruiting an experienced Social Worker to join the Looked After Children Team based in Blackburn.

The successful Social Worker would be ambitious and effective in practice to help change lives and make a sustainable difference.

You should be knowledgeable of and have experience with Looked After Children processes, have two plus years' experience working as a social worker and understand systemic family therapy.

Benefits as a Looked After Children Social Worker include:

• Progression opportunities
• Flexible working available
• Supportive team and management
• Competitive pay rate
• Long contracts for good performance

Duties as a Looked After Children Social Worker include:

• Provide court reports for cases in care proceedings
• Involve and consult with clients and their families in all matters relating to their welfare and development.
• Ensure, with other staff and volunteers that people from ethnic minorities and special needs groups receive services that are appropriate to their needs and are not discriminated against in their access to services.
• Contribute to the maintenance and updating of the teams financial and statistical systems.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post, which may be required.
• Provide a casework management service to Looked After Children
• Apply the legal requirements of The Children Act 1989, The Children Leaving Care Act 2000 and as it relates to the client groups. Including Independent Needs Assessment, Care Planning and Pathway Plan reviews
• Work in partnership with other targeted and universal services to create holistic support packages for young people.
• Contribute to other forms of service delivery.
• Attend and contribute to case conferences, reviews, and meetings.
• Provide written reports and assessments, provide management information, and maintain case records.

Essential requirements as a Looked After Children Social Worker include:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

If you are interested in the role or would like further information please call Usman at Caritas Recruitment on (phone number removed) or email to (url removed)

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Our client Barnsley Council is looking for a Children's Team Manager to join their Safeguarding team.

Responsibilities

• Have lead professional and operational responsibility for a team of staff, including recruitment, motivation, training, welfare, performance management and personal development.
• Develop and implement policies/procedures for the team/area and contribute to the development of strategy/services/policies for a specialised field, setting the direction for the service within strategic parameters.
• Undertake performance management, quality assurance and ensure value for money in services delivered by the team; act on inadequate performance as appropriate and make recommendations to improve future quality standards.
• Oversee and undertake clear and detailed client assessments, screening for risk and urgency, ensuring that referrals are allocated in accordance with agreed protocols, priorities and work-load management systems and resultant case files are monitored.
• Ensure equality of opportunity is afforded to all persons both internal and external to the council, actively seeking to eliminate any direct or indirect discriminatory practices/behaviour.
• Provide professional advice, guidance and information to a range of internal and external stakeholders as required (including social work students at Levels 1 and 2 and students from other professional disciplines), giving evidence in court, dealing with complex cases and emergency situations, ensuring that information is available at all times including outside normal office hours.
• Manage and develop appropriate transitions arrangements and chair multi-disciplinary meetings as appropriate to specialised field /local structures.
• Ensure that 'Making Safeguarding Personal' is undertaken , in accordance with policies and procedures, ensuring that case records and information systems are kept up to date and maintained to the required standards.
• Proactively liaise, negotiate, influence and collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, developing effective relationships, resolving conflicts, promoting the service.
• Investigate and seek to resolve formal and informal complaints in a timely fashion and to the satisfaction of the complaint in line with BMBC policies and procedures.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practice, policy and procedure in relation to vulnerable people as well as keeping abreast of wider service developments to enhance the service accordingly to satisfy internal and external demands.
• Authorise and manage expenditure within prescribed budgets, contributing to resource planning for specialised field, monitoring and evaluating contracts supporting packages of care as well as some responsibility for team facilities and other physical resources.

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.

Our client Sefton MBC is looking for a Team Manager to join their Children's services.

JOB PURPOSE

• To manage, develop and lead a social work team in order to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children, young people and their families by delivering high quality services that address need and lead to improved outcomes, whilst managing the reputation of the Service and the Council.
• To ensure that the Service responds to new challenges, priorities and requirements whilst maintaining the Council's statutory obligations and using resources in the most effective manner.
• Responsible for driving forward practice development, ensuring any changes are implemented into operational service improvement plans and actual service delivery is measured against the plan.

MAIN DUTIES
1. Ensure the Council meets its statutory obligations to safeguard children, complying with legislation, policy and procedures and relevant frameworks.
2. Work within safeguarding frameworks to investigate and manage risk where children and young people have experienced or are likely to experience significant harm.
3. Be responsible for the operational service delivery of the social work team.
4. Ensure that all relevant information is gathered to inform risk assessments and critically analysed to inform the plan.
5. Ensure that all work with children, young people and families decision making is robust by providing challenge and critical reflection with detailed analysis informing professional judgements.
6. Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them.
7. Using Performance data and findings from audits and feedback from families and other professionals including complaints and compliments to continuously improve practice
8. Provide critical reflection, challenge and evidence informed decision making in complex situations. Provide professional supervision within Service area, modelling good practice and reflective supervision skills.
9. Apply the principles of the applicable Working Together (currently 2023)Framework to promote best outcomes for children, young people and families.
10.Work collaboratively with internal and external colleagues to co-ordinate service delivery. To chair/contribute to multi agency and Service meetings.
11.Actively engage in risk management policies, procedures and practice and to advise Senior Managers of resource shortfalls and recommend improved methods of working where appropriate.
12.Model effective communication skills appropriate to role and communicate effectively in highly charged or challenging circumstances.
13.Respond to the needs of children, young people and families, whilst meeting statutory responsibilities and ensuring views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately.

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.

Our client Wirral MBC is looking for a Team Manager to join their Frontline Children's team.

We are looking for an experienced Team Manager to lead a frontline children's social work team across assessment, Child in Need, Child Protection, pre proceedings and care proceedings.

You will be responsible for day to day team management, quality of practice and performance, and ensuring children are seen, risks are addressed, and work progresses within timescales. This includes oversight of assessments, CP plans, CIN work, PLO and court proceedings, with confidence to make decisions and escalate where needed.

You will provide regular supervision, challenge and support social workers, and be visible and available to your team. You are expected to manage performance issues directly, maintain clear standards, and support staff to improve rather than avoid difficult conversations.

You will work closely with senior managers and partner agencies, promote good recording and timely visits, and ensure children remain at the centre of all decision making.

This role suits someone practical, resilient and child focused, who can balance support with accountability and keep a team on track.

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.

Our client Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for a Children's Team Manager to join their Locality team.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership, management and direction to designated teams, individuals, and manager's, ensuring appropriate support is in place, standards are maintained and learning and development needs are identified and addressed.
• Prepare service plans and produce team action plans ensuring an outcome focused approach to prioritisation of resources and performance.
• Participate in research, audit and benchmarking activities to develop, implement and monitor performance, standards of service delivery and service user satisfaction.
• Plan and implement developments and improvements in the service to meet legislative requirements and local and national priorities to ensure provision of a high quality, efficient, customer focused service.

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.

Our client Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Children's Team Manager to join their MASH team.

Main Accountabilities

Service Delivery

• Manage the delivery of a high quality and effective service that responds to the needs of service users and their families or carers in a timely manner within statutory guidelines or service specifications.
• Manage the planning, allocation and review of workload so priorities are managed, shortfalls identified and services delivered within capacity and within departmental and partnership policies, procedures and timescales.
• Implement policies and procedures in response to statutory guidance, local policies and the needs of service users.
• In line with organisational priorities, assume enhanced responsibilities with regard to antonymous decision making and the management of risk, this will include deputising for district and service managers when required.
• Develop and manage the service ensuring that the service response reflects need and engages service users and carers in the development of the service.

Safeguarding and Risk Management

• Assess and balance risk and protective factors within a safeguarding framework
• To take a professional lead on safeguarding and provide expert knowledge of safeguarding processes, policy and case law.
• Provide leadership and apply more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions, seeking advice as needed and ensuring subsequent actions are completed.
• Provide advice and guidance on case management and effective risk management of complex situations, understand when to take positive risks as appropriate.
• Contribute to the Council's ethos of achieving continual improvement through the review and auditing of service delivery and ensure lessons for learning are embedded into local delivery.

Service and Team Development

• Ensure every team member has regular, meaningful supervision and appraisal.
• Ensure every team member has SMART performance and development objectives set and these are reviewed and monitored regularly.
• Ensure every team member is confident to deliver a service to children and families that utilises a range of evidenced based methodologies including systemic and social learning approaches.
• Lead on the management of poor performance and inappropriate behaviour, grievance and disciplinary matters in a timely and effective manner, seeking advice as appropriate. Lead regular briefings for staff and organise training events which build an ethos of professional and confident service provision

Performance Management

• Utilise management information to inform business decisions and monitor team performance, reporting as required on team performance.
• Maintain operational systems and ensure compliance with the case file management process in accordance with departmental policy. Ensure services are delivered on the basis of assessed risk for the protection of clients and the public and that safe working procedures are maintained for staff.
• Prioritise activities and resources to meet team objectives including effective workload management of self and others.
• Contribute to service plans to reflect links between activity and key performance indicators.

Partnership Working

• Take the lead in initiating, developing and sustaining internal and external working relationships with other professionals, partner organisations and external agencies.
• Ensure that every team member works purposefully and cohesively with other agencies to promote positive outcomes for children and their families

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.