Senior Social Worker - Children With Disabilities

REMEDY RECRUITMENT GROUP ,
Bristol, Bristol
Salary: £32 - £35 per hour + DOE

Overview

Remedy Recruitment Group are looking for a Senior Social Worker for a Children with Disabilities Team for North Somerset Council. Job Purpose Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families - Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review (APIR), ensuring a minimum of 50% of time is involved in direct work. As a worker you will be expected to provide a high level of direct work at an agreed local level. Undertake a range of intervention with children and families including group work, family work and solution focused intervention, parenting work etc jointly, as appropriate, with other staff within the Community Family Service. Contribute to undertaking early intervention/preventative work, aiming to take 20% of the case load as preventative work. Promote and demonstrate the meaningful participation of children, young people and parents/carers in the process of assessments, planning, intervention and review, and in all aspects of decision making and in shaping service delivery. Act as the lead professional key worker in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including high-level children in need cases, child protection, care proceedings and looked after children cases. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89785136