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• To be able to support and attend the meeting such as ICPC, Placement Panel Meeting, chair professionals meetings on behalf of the SW's where needed or in the absence of the TL/PM.
• To support/ guide the staff with the court cases where appropriate.
• To support the team leader/practice manager as needed to undertake senior social work tasks such as support with managing duty and assisting less experienced staff, this may include supervisory tasks, support with case direction, joint visits to families and co working cases.
• To manage a complex case load, have clear threshold decision making skills, promote good quality social work across the team and to contribute to the learning culture
• Provide reliable effective social work help and intervention to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need so that children maintain a reasonable standard of health and development, receive reasonable parenting, and have a sense of permanence. Where a child is disabled take action to minimise the effect of their disabilities so they have the opportunity to lead lives as normal a life as possible.
• Identify consistently in a timely way where children are unable to live at home, take action to secure permanence for them within a timescale that meets their needs. Where children are looked after address their needs in accordance with their care plan or pathway plan, so that they make progress and have every opportunity to fulfil their potential as adults.
• Show consistent effective child centred practice with children at the centre of professional assessment, planning, intervention and review activity, and their views and wishes (appropriate to their age and understanding) are sought and used to understand the child's world and shape the level of intervention and type of help offered.
• Provide effective professional leadership so that professionals work together to meet the needs of children in need, including those with a child protection plan, privately fostered children, and looked after children and care leavers.
• Work with parents / carers to strengthen protective factors and reduce risks to the child's welfare, where seeking to establishing rapport and trust as a basis for parents changing their behaviour so that the child receives safe reasonable parenting, or where parental cooperation is not forthcoming and there is no other way of safeguarding the child, pursue alternative arrangements for the child's upbringing.
• Work with foster carers, special guardians, prospective adopters and other people who are looking after someone else's children, so that children's needs are met and that they are able to live as normal a life as possible, understand their journey to their placement, are making good progress in terms of their health, development and education, and are prepared for their transition to adult life.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The Duty service in Wigan consists of 5 duty teams and a Duty Academy, 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 intervention skills at the very first stage of assessment and support.

The nature of the work within the Duty Service can be described as fast paced, you will work on one of the 5 main Duty teams, given our 5 week Duty cycle this means that you will only be 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. The Duty service do not hold cases long term and following your assessment and intervention period the outcome of this will determine the best team for the family to step across to.

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.

Having good analytical skills is key to be able to analyse, risks assess and interpret information or situations to solve difficult problems or to develop solutions and plans.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

We have opportunities for experienced (plus 3yrs pq) children's social workers across our services in our Permanence Teams

The candidate will be experienced in Children in Care and Children Looked After

Excellent engagement and direct working skills with children and young people is essential as well

Care and placement planning and minimising risk with a methodical organised approach, ensuring long term improved outcomes

Ensuring stable placements appropriate for individual needs

There has never been a more exciting time to join Liverpool Children's Services as a social worker. We have a high quality senior leadership team who are committed to collaborative practice improvement and making Liverpool a place where good social work can flourish.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

To promote positive change in people's lives by using social work methods, models and tools, with the aims of helping them to be as independent as possible and to manage risks of abuse and neglect To make professional judgements in the context of the relevant legal and policy frameworks To work with people to carry out assessments of their needs for care and support, to plan how those needs will be met, to support them with putting those plans in to action, and review those plans and reassess needs To carry out adult safeguarding enquiries, support the work of others involved in these enquiries, and to support people with care and support needs to develop and put in to action safeguarding plans appropriate to their wishes and circumstances

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Looked After Children (LAC) Service & 16+ Children Looked After Team

Rate 33.30ph Umbrella in line with MOC

Hybrid working available

As a Social Worker within the Children Looked After Service, you will be responsible for

undertaking ongoing assessment work and intervention with children and families. You

will be progressing children's plans and ensuring that they are accessing the right level of

service at the right time. You will be working closely with colleagues and partner agencies

to ensure that the voice of the child is heard, recorded and forms an integral part of your

case planning.

• To visit and work with families as required, assessing and re-assessing children's needs whilst being looked after by the local authority.
• To act as a Case Manager and co-ordinate appropriate review meetings.
• To act as Key Worker in cases where a CLA Plan is in operation.
• To provide and contribute to Child & Family Assessments as required.
• To contribute to and to develop ways of identifying and assessing children determined to be in need within the criteria set out in the Children's Services Plan.
• To provide children and families with particular information and advice to assist in resolving problems.
• To liaise with other agencies on behalf of service users, to co-ordinate the various resources and arrange specific types of assistance.
• To carry out statutory duties as authorised by the Service Manager, Safeguarding
• Service and the Assistant Director and Director of Peoples Services.
• To present evidence and reports to Courts as required.
• To take part in the team's Duty system as required.
• To maintain computerised records and documentation in accordance with approved policies and procedures.
• To work in collaboration with parents, guardians, carers and other professionals in
• relation to Children Looked After and to maintain records in accordance with CLA requirement

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

We have opportunities for experienced (plus 3yrs pq) children's social workers across our services in our Permanence Teams

The candidate will be experienced in Children in Care and Children Looked After

Excellent engagement and direct working skills with children and young people is essential as well

Care and placement planning and minimising risk with a methodical organised approach, ensuring long term improved outcomes

Ensuring stable placements appropriate for individual needs

There has never been a more exciting time to join Liverpool Children's Services as a social worker. We have a high quality senior leadership team who are committed to collaborative practice improvement and making Liverpool a place where good social work can flourish.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The Duty service in Wigan consists of 5 duty teams and a Duty Academy, 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 intervention skills at the very first stage of assessment and support.

The nature of the work within the Duty Service can be described as fast paced, you will work on one of the 5 main Duty teams, given our 5 week Duty cycle this means that you will only be 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. The Duty service do not hold cases long term and following your assessment and intervention period the outcome of this will determine the best team for the family to step across to.

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.

Having good analytical skills is key to be able to analyse, risks assess and interpret information or situations to solve difficult problems or to develop solutions and plans.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

To promote positive change in people's lives by using social work methods, models and tools, with the aims of helping them to be as independent as possible and to manage risks of abuse and neglect To make professional judgements in the context of the relevant legal and policy frameworks To work with people to carry out assessments of their needs for care and support, to plan how those needs will be met, to support them with putting those plans in to action, and review those plans and reassess needs To carry out adult safeguarding enquiries, support the work of others involved in these enquiries, and to support people with care and support needs to develop and put in to action safeguarding plans appropriate to their wishes and circumstances

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Looked After Children (LAC) Service & 16+ Children Looked After Team

Rate 33.30ph Umbrella in line with MOC

Hybrid working available

As a Social Worker within the Children Looked After Service, you will be responsible for

undertaking ongoing assessment work and intervention with children and families. You

will be progressing children's plans and ensuring that they are accessing the right level of

service at the right time. You will be working closely with colleagues and partner agencies

to ensure that the voice of the child is heard, recorded and forms an integral part of your

case planning.

• To visit and work with families as required, assessing and re-assessing children's needs whilst being looked after by the local authority.
• To act as a Case Manager and co-ordinate appropriate review meetings.
• To act as Key Worker in cases where a CLA Plan is in operation.
• To provide and contribute to Child & Family Assessments as required.
• To contribute to and to develop ways of identifying and assessing children determined to be in need within the criteria set out in the Children's Services Plan.
• To provide children and families with particular information and advice to assist in resolving problems.
• To liaise with other agencies on behalf of service users, to co-ordinate the various resources and arrange specific types of assistance.
• To carry out statutory duties as authorised by the Service Manager, Safeguarding
• Service and the Assistant Director and Director of Peoples Services.
• To present evidence and reports to Courts as required.
• To take part in the team's Duty system as required.
• To maintain computerised records and documentation in accordance with approved policies and procedures.
• To work in collaboration with parents, guardians, carers and other professionals in
• relation to Children Looked After and to maintain records in accordance with CLA requirement

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.