
Social Worker - Looked After Children Team
- Redbridge, Greater London
- £46,041 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To undertake a range of children and families and safeguarding assessments.
- To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare, present and implement plans for work with children and their families based on such assessments.
- To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family network.
- To initiate where necessary Care Proceedings, attend Court and represent the Local Authority.
- To support children who are looked after by this authority. Formulate, prepare and implement appropriate care plans in line with C.L.A Procedures.
- To prepare and present a range of reports including reports for Court, Child Care Reviews, C.P. Conferences and planning meetings.
- Manage workload, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
- Commission a range of services designated to minimise risks and improve the wellbeing of service users and their carers.
- To be accountable for your practice and involve individuals, families, carers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices, options and linking them to support groups and networks.
- To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with others to improve services offered to them.
- To work with children and their families to ensure where appropriate a re-unification, where short term separation has been necessary.
- Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honesty.
- Raise and address issues of poor practice, internally via organisation procedures, and then independently if required.
- To have particular regard to all safeguarding issues and to ensure that they are raised appropriately through professional and managerial channels.
- Ensure practice is underpinned by evidence, policy, procedures and code of conduct to promote individuals rights to determine their own solutions, promoting problem-solving skills, whilst recognising how and when self-determination may be constrained by legislation.
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
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