Permanent Senior Social Worker
Oxfordshire
Rate: £36,648 to £46,464 per annum

We are recruiting for motivated qualified qualified social workers to join our busy team. This role is with one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving as one of the best places to live and work in.

This is a qualified role requiring you to be SWE registered and have relevant experience in childrens social care.

Brief overview of the key objectives of the job:

To provide professional social work to a caseload of children, young people, and families, appropriate to experience and capabilities, ensuring their views are heard
To ensure the highest of professional standards and good overall knowledge of relevant law, legislation, and practice in line with the values and principles of FSP and Oxfordshire County Council’s Threshold of Needs and Practice Standards.
To ensure provision of good quality services which integrate government and local guidance and initiatives including, Children Acts 1989 & 2004, Working Together, local Child Protection and Looked After Children procedures, and the DoH, Assessment Framework 2000.
The nature of this post will require flexibility to meet urgent priorities as they arise. This may entail some work outside normal office hours on occasion. The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude, to undertake a range of tasks in line with the needs of the service and support other services within the Front Door as and when needed.

Job Responsibilities

To provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people, and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed, and that relevant interventions are provided where needed, in a timely way.
To work with families using the FSP Workbook modules, and a strengths-based approach.
To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including child protection conference reports and legal reports for care proceedings.
To attend conferences, reviews and court as required for each case presenting plans clearly, with professionalism and integrity.
To ensure the Assistant /Team Manager is kept fully appraised of significant information about allocated families, seeking advice as and when necessary.
To attend group/case supervision when required and to ensure that relevant updates are provided before each group supervision session.
To attend individual supervision when required and engage in continual professional development as recommended by the Assistant/Team Manager
To use ICT to maintain accurate case records, and to be able to record activity in line with key performance management data.
To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the Council’s policies and procedures
To act as the duty worker for the team on a rotational basis, responding to new referrals
To undertake child and family assessments for allocated families
To investigate allegations of harm or neglect under s47 Children Act 1989 when required.
To practice in line with the Council’s procedures and statutory regulation in supporting children who come into the care of the local authority
To be familiar with and committed to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice and the Council Policy and Plan and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team, workplace, and wider organisation.
To proactively liaise with and work in partnership other agencies and organisations, parents and carers.
To ensure that the child’s voice is considered in all casework and included in all assessments and plans.
To promote the involvement of young service users and families in meetings about them, and where possible, in-service development
Comply with OCC health and safety policies, procedures, and rules, taking reasonable care of self and others.
Any other duties as may be deemed necessary to carry out the full remit of the role.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

An easy registration process (all done online)
Referral schemes and incentives
Ongoing compliance managed for you
Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

Please contact Joe Thomas-Samuels on 07860876427 or joe.thomas-samuels@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.

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