Social Worker

Job Description

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified
Location : County Hall, Somerset Council
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :08:30
End Time :17:00
Salary: £30.44

Somerset Council have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our Taunton Assessment team within Children’s Social Care. The key purpose of the role is to improve the outcomes for our most vulnerable young people and families in Somerset to encourage positive change.

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

– Work with children and families to complete assessments to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of needs and risk, alongside strengths and protective factors, to develop meaningful plans to ensure that children are protected from significant harm and receive the appropriate multi-agency support.
– Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with experience, ability and qualification; receive and respond to referrals from various sources.
– Assess the needs of children and families under the appropriate statutory frameworks, liaising and working with partner agencies, and other Children’s Services teams, as required
– Participate in a duty rota responding to crisis situations and supporting children to remain safely within their families
– Enable and empower individuals’ families and carers to address issues which affect their health, financial, emotional and social wellbeing and to achieve and sustain positive change.

You will be passionate about relationship-based social work, proud of your profession, and able to reflect and think creatively about how you can build relationships to make a difference to children and families.

You will need to be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and have substantial experience working with children and families in social work.