Qualified Social Worker

Qualified Social Worker | Assessment Team | Devon County Council

• Qualified Social Worker / Social Work Professional required to join a statutory Assessment Team (aka Duty and Assessment / Referral and Assessment / Initial Assessment / Initial Response / First Response Team)
• Office base: Devon - Exeter
• You must have a social work qualification and full SWE registration

Client Info

Assessment Service, Exeter

• We are seeking experienced social workers to support our children and young people in Exeter. This is a fantastic opportunity to build meaningful and positive relationships with children, young people, and families; working closely with them to achieve positive outcomes that are family led, built on strengths, and achieve safety and stability keeping them safe through their childhood and beyond.
• Currently the Local Authority is working under an Ofsted Improvement Plan therefore we need experienced, robust social workers who have experience of good practice and are able to model this across the service with peers.

About our Assessment Team

• To support the children and families teams we have added 3 Specialist Practitioners to support with specialist assessments such as Reg 24's, VA's, Pre birth and Parenting Assessments. This supports the throughput within the court arena and allows practitioners to focus on the day to day assessments and interventions with children and families.
• Our Assessment team is responsible for carrying out Child and Family Assessments and, when necessary, section 47 Child Protection enquiries to decide whether a child is in need of support from our Children and Families teams, requires protection or should be taken into care. Our team of Social Workers, ASYE's and Family Practitioners are managed and supported by the team Manager's.
• The candidates will be required in the office 5 days a week (duty week) and 3 days a week (non duty week), this is in order to support seeing children in a timely manner, working directly with families and also attend to any emergencies or s47 on your cases.

If you are interested in discussing this position in more detail please call (phone number removed) and ask for Anton Mostert or email (url removed)

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