Our Client, Devon Council, is seeking a Children’s Social Worker to join their Front Door Team.

Fantastic payrate of £44 per hour!

Are you a Children’s Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

To ensure an effective response to children and young people in need of Social work intervention when incident of concern or crisis arise outside of usual business hours.
To have demonstrable knowledge of child protection, safeguarding children, early help and care of looked after children and apply this to practice within the Out of Hours Service.
To co-ordinate service provision to meet the needs of those children as required over the out of hours operational period.
To be responsible for identifying the need to initiate s47 children protection investigations, including leading on the co-ordination of multi agency strategy discussions as required and call in oversight of management including on call service lead.
To carry out direct work with children and their families in order to meet their assessed need.
To respect and promote the needs of children arising from their racial, cultural, religious and linguistic background.
To engage parents, carers and children in meaningful and open working relationships, to encourage their full participation in meeting the needs of the children.
To support the development of parents and carers as required in order to achieve best outcomes for the children.
To undertake such work jointly with colleagues within the service and from other agencies in appropriate cases.
To observe all statutory regulations.

Requirements of this role:

Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
Must have a Social Work qualification (Diploma in social work, social work degree or equivalent)
Must have minimum of 2 years experience working as a Qualified social worker in a similar team

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
Free CV building and Interview support.
Free DBS checks.
Weekly payroll.
PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
CPD contributions.
Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!

Childrens Social Worker - Front Door

Qualified Social Worker