
Qualified Social Worker, Families First Locality Team
- Trafford Park, Greater Manchester
- Contract
- Full-time
Pay rate to £35 per hour
Contract role
We are recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to work in a Families First Locality team in Trafford.
You will be working with our dedicated Child in Need Service where you will work on a locality basis with children and families that require a social work assessment. We have developed a specialised service in this area of work to allow us to strengthen our assessment and planning for children in need and their families, raising the status of children in need and ensuring a consistent approach across the borough.
Teams' complete duty on a rota basis and social workers will have a varied workload including undertaking section 47 enquiries, completing child and family assessments and holding a manageable case load of children who are supported through child in need planning.
It is also important that social workers in this service are able to build relational partnerships that strengthen our work and enable the step down of plans where it is safe to do so and in the families' timescales.
We would if possible welcome candidates with UASC experience, particularly completing/trained in conducting Age Assessments
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