Children’s Social Worker

Job Description

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified
Client Location : Craven Council, North Yorkshire County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £25.33

We are looking for an experienced social worker to join our team. We work with looked after children, those in court proceedings and also those supported on other orders such as SGO and supervision orders. Based in Selby North Yorkshire and currently have one office day a week and one duty day a week. The children we work with however cover a large geographical area and as such there will be amounts of travel within the role. The main roles and responsibilities will be to manage a caseload of children and young people from 0-18 who are looked after, completing the visits to them, PEP’s reviews and other general support. We are a friendly and supportive team who work well together but also need someone to be able to work alone.

Experience
Grade J :
• • Some background experience in a social care or similar setting
• • Work placement in a child care setting (degree course) Grade K :
• • The eligibility criterion for progression beyond (Grade J) will be as above for
Grade J plus 2 years relevant post-qualification experience in accordance
with designated performance standards.
• • Instances may occur where the post-qualification experience is not in a post
specifically designated as Social Worker. In such cases the appropriate Service Manager must be satisfied as to the quality and relevance of that experience
Occupational Skills
Grade J :
• • Ability to communicate with children and young people at all levels of ability
• • Undertake negotiation with families
• • Ability to assess family circumstances and need and identify necessary
resources to meeting that need
• • Multi-disciplinary working intervention with Families
• • Presentation skills (written and oral)
• • The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in
accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
• • Advocacy
• • Care Planning and implementation
• • Ability to engage with service users
• • Team working
• • Effective written and verbal communication skills including report writing
• • IT skills to include competency in word processing, manipulating
spreadsheets, accessing information from databases and electronic
communication.
• • Time management skills
• • Ability to engage with service users

Professional Qualifications/Training/Registrations required by law, and/or essential for the performance of the role
Grade J:
• • Fully qualified, accredited social work professional status (CQSW, DipSW,
CSS, PQCCA)
• • Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
Grade K:
• • Fully qualified, accredited social work professional status (CQSW, DipSW,
CSS, PQCCA)
• • Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
• • Successfully passing Level 3 (competence based) Assessment