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Become a Children’s Social Worker for Bury and help with our 'Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.
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About the role
We are on the start of a journey in Bury and doing things differently. Social Workers are such an important part of our journey, and we promise to develop your skills and support your learning. We want the best talent in Bury and need practitioners who help influence the services we are developing. We want to help you to grow, deliver confident practice with protected caseloads and be the best you can be.
You will be working alongside Adult practitioners, giving you more time and scope to work with children. Working collectively, we prioritise support, training and development to serve within a child centred practice. If you are enthusiastic about children, young people and their families and want to work and develop your practice, then we want to hear from you!
We currently have vacancies across all main service areas. Are you a qualified Social Worker who is passionate about improving lives for children? Then come and join us in Bury.
We want to invest in you, and we have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form relationships, seeing the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to support families to live together safely and for children and young people to thrive.
General Duties:
- Provide a professional social work service to children in need and their families in accordance with the principles of the Children Act Undertake enquiries and assessments of children who are considered to have possible suffered or who may be likely to suffer significant harm.
- Provide cover for the Children and Families Social Work Teams and when required. Work directly with service users employing a wide range of social work knowledge, skills, methods and techniques.
- Work co-operatively or conjointly with other social workers or other professionals where this is seen to be appropriate by the Fieldwork Team Manager or their managers Participate as required in the administration and organisation of all work related to social work duties associated with the post.
- Provide information to assist in the planning, implementation or monitoring of services as required for departmental, Department of Health or other official purposes. Work effectively and co-operatively within a professional and family network established in respect of individual children in need and their families.
- Act within departmental, council and government requirements, policies and procedures.
- Participate in supervision within the departmental scheme; act in accordance with plans or undertakings given within supervision.
- Act as chair in meetings within the child protection procedures where this has been agreed by the Team Manager or other Fieldwork Managers.
- Provide information to assist in the planning, implementation or monitoring of services as required for departmental, Department for Education or other official purposes.
- To be responsible for and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and for ensuring that they are protected from harm.
