Social Worker Assistant

Social Work Assistant

Birmingham

16/hr

Start date: ASAP

Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36/hrs a week

Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Social Work Assistant in the Birmingham area.

Job purpose:

To support social workers who safeguard and promote the welfare of the most vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high quality service.

Key Responsibilities

To be responsible for an 'allocated worker' casework role, as assigned by Team Manager/Social Worker.

Assessments & Interventions

• To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all relevant information and take appropriate actions to fulfil statutory responsibilities to promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of the child/young people.
• To ensure the well-being and safety of the child/young person is paramount through analysing all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
• As directed, provides practical day to day support to children and their families.

Social Work Specific Knowledge & Skills

1. Demonstrates a basic knowledge of social work practice.

2. Basic understanding of the legislative framework applying to working with children and families in a statutory setting

3. Ability to work professionally with people experiencing challenging personal circumstances.

Communication

4. Ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences through written, verbal and other means of communication.

5. An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence using the English Language as required by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016

Team Work

6. Ability to work flexibly with local and wider team and in partnership with other professional agencies to achieve overall team goals.