Childrens Social Worker - Placement and Brokerage

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

Fantastic payrate of £37 per hour!

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

Responsibilities of this role:

• Manage the moving in of Looked After Children and Care Leavers into projects for housing that we commission and to oversee their transition into independent living. This would require good matching skills for the move in and organisation and co-working skills for planning and the move on’s.
• Working closely with the commissioned housing partners to ensure guidance and support in better meeting the needs of our children and young people.
• Ensuring close working with the housing partners to maximise capacity in continuing to offer services.
• Ongoing Quality Assurance of the commissioned housing partners and other external providers of services such as Independent Fostering Agencies, Residential Children’s Home, Parenting Assessment Units, 18+ accommodation, etc.
• Working closely and creatively with the Team Manager in developing the Quality Assurance aspect of the placement service.
• Working closely with our Looked After Children and Care Leavers around feedback and empowering them to be part of the QA processes.
• Working closely with our external providers in helping them understand their areas of development and tracking progress.

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!