Social Worker

Service care Solution are currently recruiting for a Social Worker to join the Children with Disabilities Team in Luton

Main Responsibilities

As a Children with Disabilities Social Worker, some of your responsibilities will be:

To be responsible for a complex caseload including those children at risk and subject to care proceedings and child protection plans to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the town, by driving up the quality of practice and partnerships across the town and its services, whilst ensuring legislative requirements are met.

Act in a consultative and mentoring role to less experienced social workers to ensure reflective practice in all single or multi agency assessments, including the development of outcome focused plans.

This will include supporting less experienced staff with court proceedings and chairing core group and multi-agency meetings.

Support Team Managers to promote excellence within the team, i.e.

providing peer supervision, mentoring and deputising in the absence of Managers.

To gather information, to complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessments of need and risk in respect of children and families

Critically analyse all relevant information and take the lead role to co-ordinate the multi-agency approach to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of child/young people

Requirements:

• Substantial post qualifying experience in social work care field


• Full UK Driving Licence


• Social work qualification, and registered with Social Work England

Working with Service Care Solutions comes with many benefits, including:

• A specialist consultant within an experience and dedicated recruitment team


• Excellent rates of pay


• Payroll service twice a week


• £5,500 market supplement and £963 essential car user allowance (subject to criteria)

If you are interested in the Senior Practitioner, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Emma at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208964 or email emma.petricco@servicecare.org.uk

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed!