Back to search
Children's Senior Social Worker
Team: Duty and Assessment
Location: Wigan
Rate: 39
***MUST HAVE SIGNIFICANT DUTY AND ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCE ***
The duty service consists of 5 duty teams, you will be on duty one week in five and have the support of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner and a Senior Social worker.
Families who we work with in duty require our expert assessment and interventions skills. The nature of the work within the duty Service can be described as fast paced, you will work on one of 5 duty teams, only going on duty 1 in every 5 weeks. The duty teams in Wigan hold a varying complexity of cases, in our duty service, case transfer points include the initial child protection case conference, the first CLA review, the first PLO meeting, the 3rd CIN meeting.
You will have the ability to think quickly and be creative to overcome the complex challenges and issues you may face.
You will have good interpersonal and caring skills which will help you to support and meet the needs of the children, young people and their families. Being able to be motivated to empower children and families is essential to support them to reach and achieve their own solutions and for assist in helping them make long term sustainable family plans.
