
Newly Qualified Social Worker, Looked After Children Team
- Ilford, Greater London
- £40,443 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To manage a workload with jointly agreed performance indicators in accordance with the policies and procedures of LB Redbridge Children Services.
- Manage workload, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
- Develop an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps, and to meet these, establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise.
- Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honesty.
- Obtain regular, effective supervision from a social worker for effective practice, reflection and career development.
- To have particular regard to all safeguarding issues and to ensure that they are raised appropriately through professional and managerial channels.
- Demonstrate through your practice an understanding and use of knowledge related to your area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence-based practice research.
- Demonstrate in practice and recording a working knowledge of human growth and development throughout the life course.
- Demonstrate, through adjusting your practice, the short and long-term impact of psychological, socio-economic, environmental and physiological factors on people’s lives, taking into account and development, and how this informs practice.
- Demonstrate through practice a critical understanding of social welfare policy, its evolution, implementation and impact on people, social work, other professions, and inter-agency working.
- Keep up-to-date with evidence informed practice about what is most effective in working with children and young people and families.
- Carry out appropriate administrative tasks in support of the work including maintaining records, preparing statistical returns and completing internal documentation.
- Participate in all relevant learning and development activities and other opportunities for continuous professional development. In particular to take responsibility for participating in to date safeguarding training on regular basis.
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
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