Qualified Social Worker - Permanence team Leicester - Job

Qualified Social Worker - Permanence team

Our client Leicestershire county council is looking for a Qualified Social Worker to join their Permanence team.

Job Purpose

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the department.
Use judgement, knowledge and the skilled use of authority to intervene with families to promote safety, stability and success.
To build productive working relationships with children, young people and families so we can hear and understand what they want to happen to make their lives better.
Evaluate our practice and its impact and how we improve outcomes for those with whom we work.

Responsibilities

Work within Leicestershire's practice framework and apply Leicestershire's practice standards and procedures
Work collaboratively and in partnership with families, enabling them to care for their children - at all times 'working with' - not 'doing to'.
Work cooperatively with children's services, health agencies and other community services to provide the most effective care for children, young people and their families and within their communities.
Seek and use supervision and other professional support to ensure critical reflection and use of analysis are integrated with professional judgement and reasoned discernment. Be open to self-reflection and challenge
Provide timely thorough assessments of need, drawing on multiple sources of theoretical knowledge, evidence and best practice to make informed judgements. Enable families to develop plans that will achieve change required. Monitor plans to ensure change is sustainable and children's day to day lives improve, maintaining professional curiosity throughout. Ensure plans and records are written to children and families are meaningfully involved in everything that is happening.
Routinely contribute to the departmental quality assurance and improvement work (audit and practice observations for example) and work with others to ensure that learning from these activities is disseminated and applied in practice. Seeing this as part of good social work practice not an added extra
Contribute to a 'learning organisation' by taking personal responsibility for continuous professional development, Keep up to date in relation to practice research about children, young people and family working using resources including the Learning Hub, Signs of Safety Knowledge bank and Research in Practice

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.

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