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Connect2Halton is currently recruiting for a Qualified Social Worker to join the Short Break Service for Children with Disabilities Team within Halton Borough Council. We are looking to appoint a specialist Social Worker who shares our commitment to provide services that enable families of children with disabilities to have an improved quality of life within their communities. You will have a key role in assessing the needs of disabled children who have complex needs, producing a robust, person centred, Child in Need plan and supporting them to access short break services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake complex assessments for children and young people with disabilities, identifying needs and risks, and determining appropriate short break interventions.
• Lead and manage complex care planning for disabled children and their families, ensuring packages are tailored to individual needs and promote safety, inclusion, and positive outcomes.
• Coordinate and oversee joint-funded care packages, working collaboratively with health, education, and other partners to ensure integrated support.
• Provide professional leadership within the team, supporting colleagues through mentoring, reflective supervision, and promoting evidence-informed practice.
• Work collaboratively with providers, health professionals, schools, and voluntary agencies to ensure a coordinated approach to short breaks.
• Chair meetings and provide expert advice in multi-agency forums, ensuring safeguarding and best practice standards are upheld.
• Support the learning and development of staff and students, creating a positive and reflective learning environment.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Social Work England registration.
• 3 years perm experience.
• Previous experience of working with children with disabilities
• Ability to work under pressure and manage caseloads.

Why join us?

• Free DBS and compliance support - We'll help you navigate the compliance process at no additional cost.
• Weekly payment.
• Exclusive job opportunities - Access specialist Social Work vacancies that may not be available through other agencies.
• Dedicated specialist consultant - Receive personalised support from a consultant with extensive knowledge of the Social Work sector.

Connect2Halton is a trading style of Halton & Kent Commercial Services LLP- A joint venture between Halton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Halton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Flexible Working Working from home encouraged Supportive Management 6 month rolling contract

If you enjoy direct work with children this role is ideal for you!

Over in Merseyside there's a team that covers and supports Care Experienced Children - a team dedicated to best outcomes for children within care whether that's residential or within care settings.

You will be working with children who are in a long term care arrangements, managing care proceedings following the first hearing, meaning you will need experience of doing a variety of court work, including writing statements and plans and progress reunification plans, adoption etc

So what are the benefits for you?

We understand the importance of work-life balance therefore alongside dealing with complex cases, working from home is encouraged, you will be working with a fast paced team however these authorities allow you to work around a personal schedule!

Alongside this you will be getting a quality of service with Leaders in Care offering weekly check ins to make sure the role is exactly what is offered to you, even check google to show that we offer a 5 service.

If this role interests you, please get in contact with Leo, send your CV to (url removed) , or call on (phone number removed)

If the role is not for you, but perhaps a friend or colleague looking for a change, we are offering market leading referral fee of 500 per placement - all you have to do is reach out!

As this is a statutory role, you do require a social work qualification & registration to Social Work England.

Our client Somerset Council is looking for an Adults Social Worker to join their Learning Disabilities team.

Main Responsibilities and Duties

• Undertake detailed Care Act reviews and reassessments for adults with learning disabilities as part of the Review Project.
• Complete face-to-face visits with people in their homes, supported living services, residential settings and other community-based environments to gather evidence and assess current care and support needs.
• Gather, analyse and evaluate information from multiple sources, including the person, family members, advocates, providers, health professionals, records and direct observations to inform professional decision-making.
• Determine whether existing information supports a statutory review or whether a full reassessment is required, recording clear professional rationale for decisions made.
• Identify, evidence and record eligible care and support needs in accordance with the Care Act, applying strengths-based and person-centred practice throughout the assessment process.
• Produce high-quality, evidence-based and audit-ready assessments, reviews, support plans and case recordings which clearly demonstrate professional judgement, analysis and rationale
• Analyse and distinguish between social care needs, delegated health tasks, NHS responsibilities and potential health-related needs requiring further consideration.
• Identify cases where Continuing Healthcare (CHC), Checklist consideration, Checklist review or challenge may be appropriate and provide evidence-based recommendations to support decision-making.
• Participate in multidisciplinary discussions, funding reviews and CHC-related processes where required, providing clear professional analysis and recommendations.
• Consider opportunities to maximise independence, reduce reliance on paid support where appropriate, and ensure support arrangements remain proportionate, outcome-focused and person-centred.
• Manage an allocated workload independently, ensuring reviews, reassessments, recording and associated tasks are completed within project timescales and organisational expectations.
• Work collaboratively with Adult Social Care teams, health colleagues, providers and other stakeholders to achieve timely, defensible and evidence-based funding and care planning outcomes.
• Attend Somerset office locations as required (minimum two days per week) and travel across Somerset to undertake visits, assessments, reviews and project-related activities.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with health colleagues, providers, housing services, family members, advocates and other partner agencies to support evidence-based assessment and decision-making.
• Establish and maintain effective professional relationships with people, their families, carers and representatives to ensure assessments and reviews are person-centred, strengths-based and outcomes focused.
• Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environments, contributing professional expertise and participating in meetings, reviews and funding discussions where required.
• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, rights and choice, ensuring practice remains person-centred, anti-discriminatory and compliant with statutory responsibilities.
• Maintain accurate and timely electronic records, using relevant IT systems to record, analyse and evidence professional decision-making to an audit-ready standard.
• Maintain professional development and apply current legislation, guidance, research and best practice to support high-quality assessment and review activity.

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.

Children's Social Worker - Level 2 / 3 Children With Disabilities Team South Coast Salary:

• Level 2 - Band 10: Starting salary of £45,529
• Level 3 - Band 11: Starting salary of £49,817
  Pro rata for part-time colleagues.

Manage a diverse caseload of children, young people and their families, undertaking assessments to determine the needs and capabilities of clients and carers, and drawing up plans of support under the supervision and guidance of a designated supervisor, using agreed eligibility criteria and in accordance with statutory requirements, Directorate and Corporate Policy and National Legislation. Cost any support package and assist the client to access the most appropriate and comprehensive support available through community resources, direct payments or commissioned services. This should be achieved where appropriate within a multi agency environment and in accordance with service users' wishes, directorate budget limits and the requirements of the strategic framework and/or lead commissioning framework relating to the procurement of services

Provide and ensure the availability of adequate advocacy arrangements to assist service users towards self-determination of their personal assistance arrangements

Identify and where appropriate manage any safeguarding and quality of care issues in line with directorate policy and practice requirements, taking forward appropriate actions and communication with supervisor / line manager/ other directorate officers and develop investigating officer skills.

Connect2Kent is a trading style of Commercial Services Kent LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Kent is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Our client Leicestershire county council is looking for an Adults Social Worker to join their Learning Disabilities & Autism team.

Job purpose

Deliver a high quality, person-centred, accountable statutory social care service, ensuring that vulnerable adults and their families and careers;

• are able to assess, manage and review their own needs and risks, maximise their own independence and self-direct the responses to deliver agreed outcomes
• Can access personalised care and support to meet their assessed needs and maintain themselves in the community
• Are protected and safeguarded

Duties and Responsibilites

• Ensure high quality outcome-based responses to all citizens eligible for social care services by;

1. 1. Providing appropriate responses or referrals within required timescales, organisational, policy and legislative requirements including the reimbursement legislation and eligibility guidelines
   2. providing prompt support to meet immediate risks and needs in crisis situations
   3. providing targeted, appropriate support to citizens' self-assessments of their needs, working in partnership with colleagues in health and other partner agencies to contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments as required
   4. acting as care co-ordinator for citizens with complex needs, supporting high risk, complex assessments where there are specific concerns requiring a high level of specialist qualification and knowledge and/or where there are difficult life circumstances or serious trauma.
   5. ensure that responses are geared to citizens' ethnic, religious

• Identify, investigate and manage potential safeguarding, mental capacity, continuing health care and other high risk situations where citizens' safety or liberty may be at risk, working with all relevant agencies so as to enable citizens to take risks whilst protecting them from abuse, managing the risks to staff and the Council.
• Promote independence and facilitate solutions, providing practical, person-centred assistance for citizens, their family/carer and their support network to:

• 1. 1. assess and review their own risks and outcomes and determine the allocated personal budget
     2. design and cost a mutually-agreed best value support plan to meet agreed outcomes
     3. identify community and other natural support resources, hence maximising their assets using benefits, preventative/universal services and other funding sources
     4. liaise and negotiate with local providers, support networks, and other resources
     5. access, use and review their services, including the effective use of direct payments and the safe use of equipment and adaptations in compliance with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines on safe working practices.
     6. identify and implement positive solutions in resolving any conflict between the parties involved
     7. arrange, implement and review support plans if requested by the citizen, and providing intensive support if they require it to start activities or test new services

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.

Social Worker Children with Disabilities Team Rochdale

Location: Rochdale Council

Pay/Salary: up to £39 per hour

Office Working: 2 Days per week

Contract: Locum

We are currently working with Rochdale Council to find an experienced Social Worker for their Children with Disabilities team in Childrens Services. With a stable management team and a mostly permanent workforce, Rochdale are looking for someone with solid experience to be able to pick up a caseload and support their service.

Duties

• Completing Section 47 s and section 17 enquiries
• Working closely with multi-agency partners, including OT s, CAMHS, paediatric and SEND partners)
• Undertake Section 7 and Section 37 reports and attend Court
• Long term engagement with families, including direct work, capturing the voice of the Child
• Write conference reports and attend conferences
• Undertake all Child Protection work from the initial conference onwards

What you need

• Social Work Qualification
• Social Work England registration
• Enhanced DBS (provided by us)

Why use us?

At Sheldon Phillips, you are not just a number on a board, you are someone we get to know, creating a personal job search that is as individual as you are. Our expert team are trained to ensure that your needs are met, our compliance procedures are quick and efficient, while making sure you find the job you really want.

If you are interested in this Social Work role in a Children with Disabilities team in Rochdale, give David Mitchell a call on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

Social Worker Children with Disabilities Team London

Location: London Borough of Camden

Pay/Salary: up to £39.04 per hour

Office Working: 3 Days per week

Contract: Locum

We are currently working with Camden Council to find an experienced Social Worker for their Children with Disabilities team in Childrens Services. With a stable management team and a mostly permanent workforce, Camden are looking for someone with solid experience to be able to pick up a caseload and support their service.

Duties

• Completing Section 47 s and section 17 enquiries
• Working closely with multi-agency partners, including OT s, CAMHS, paediatric and SEND partners)
• Undertake Section 7 and Section 37 reports and attend Court
• Long term engagement with families, including direct work, capturing the voice of the Child
• Write conference reports and attend conferences
• Undertake all Child Protection work from the initial conference onwards

What you need

• Social Work Qualification
• Social Work England registration
• Enhanced DBS (provided by us)

Why use us?

At Sheldon Phillips, you are not just a number on a board, you are someone we get to know, creating a personal job search that is as individual as you are. Our expert team are trained to ensure that your needs are met, our compliance procedures are quick and efficient, while making sure you find the job you really want.

If you are interested in this Social Work role in a Children with Disabilities team in Camden, give Jamie Trick a call on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

Employer: London Borough of Camden
Team: Children and Young People's Disability Service (CYPDS)
Location: 5 Pancras Square, Camden
Working Pattern: Agile working office, home and community visits
Service Area: Children's Social Care / Disability and Transition to Adulthood

Camden Council is seeking an experienced and motivated Social Worker to join its Children and Young People's Disability Service (CYPDS), supporting disabled children, young people and their families from birth through to the transition into adulthood.

This is an opportunity to manage a varied and complex caseload, undertaking statutory assessments, safeguarding interventions and care planning while working collaboratively with families and professionals across health, education, housing and voluntary services.

The successful candidate will be committed to person-centred, strengths-based practice, ensuring children and young people's wishes, feelings and lived experiences remain central to all decision-making.

The service covers a broad range of statutory social work responsibilities, including Child in Need, Child Protection, children looked after, Short Breaks, Public Law Outline (PLO), court proceedings and Preparation for Adulthood.

• Manage a complex caseload of disabled children and young people, undertaking assessments, planning, interventions and reviews.

• Complete timely and analytical assessments of need, risk and protective factors.

• Develop, implement and review support plans in partnership with children, young people, parents and carers.

• Undertake statutory social work duties relating to Child in Need, Child Protection, children looked after, PLO and court proceedings as required.

• Promote the safeguarding, welfare and best interests of children and young people.

• Carry out direct work with children and young people, adapting communication methods to meet individual needs and abilities.

• Work sensitively with parents and carers, including in situations involving disagreement, conflict or safeguarding concerns.

• Collaborate with health, education, housing and other partner agencies to coordinate services and improve outcomes.

• Support disabled young people with transition planning and Preparation for Adulthood.

• Undertake Care Act assessments and relevant adult social care responsibilities where appropriate.

• Participate in professional meetings, reviews, conferences, panels and multi-agency planning discussions.

• Identify and make appropriate use of statutory services, commissioned provision, community resources and voluntary sector support.

• Maintain accurate, comprehensive and timely case records in accordance with legislation and departmental procedures.

• Meet statutory deadlines and departmental performance requirements.

• Contribute to reflective practice, team learning and continuous service improvement.

• Promote equality, inclusion, co-production and anti-discriminatory practice throughout service delivery.

Candidates must demonstrate:

• A recognised social work qualification.

• Current registration with Social Work England.

• Post-qualifying experience in statutory social work.

• Strong knowledge of children's social care legislation, safeguarding frameworks and statutory guidance.

• Experience undertaking statutory assessments and analysing complex family circumstances.

• Experience developing, implementing and reviewing plans for children and families.

• Experience of Child in Need and safeguarding work.

• Strong assessment, analytical and professional decision-making skills.

• The ability to communicate effectively with children and young people with different communication needs.

• Experience working collaboratively with multi-agency professionals and partner organisations.

• The ability to manage complex cases, prioritise workloads and meet statutory timescales.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing.

• Confidence in managing challenging situations, professional disagreements and safeguarding risks.

• A commitment to child-centred, strengths-based and outcome-focused practice.

Support Worker - Learning Disabilities (Female Only)

Community Support Somerset (BA4 & DT9)

We are seeking an experienced female Support Worker to join a small, person-centred learning disabilities service supporting individuals within the community across Somerset.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building long-term relationships and supporting people to live independently in their own homes and local community.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role - you must have the right to work in the UK in place to apply.

Package

• 14.11 per hour
• Guaranteed 20 hours per week
• Mainly evenings and weekends
• Ongoing training and development
• Small supportive team
• Opportunity to grow with the service
• Stable long-term role

Responsibilities

• Supporting adults with learning disabilities
• Community access and daily living support
• Assisting with personal care where required
• Working to person-centred support plans
• Building positive relationships
• Liaising with families and professionals
• Maintaining accurate records
• Promoting dignity, choice and independence

Requirements

• Learning disabilities experience essential
• Female applicants only due to service user requirements
• Driver with own vehicle and business insurance
• Comfortable travelling across BA4 and DT9
• Available evenings and alternate weekends
• Calm, reliable and person-centred approach
• Right to work in the UK

This is a community-based role supporting people across BA4 and DT9. Regular travel between visits is required.

If you have the experience and values to support people to live independently, please submit your CV to apply.

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