Qualified Social Worker - Child Assessment & Safeguarding Team

We are looking to recruit a Social Worker for the Child Assessment and Safegarding Team (CAST) within the Social Care Industry. Our client has a well-structured and organised team that are looking to grow their staffing levels. The role offers flexible working hours and has a supportive team culture with regular supervision on cases. Hampshire Council is embedding a systemic approach and is currently undergoing a number of changes focussed on reducing caseloads and improving outcomes for families. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and supportive team within Hampshire County Council Main duties include: * Manage and monitor a workload of complex cases as directed and organise work activities taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, ensuring statutory responsibilities are undertaken for children including visiting children, arranging reviews, reporting to court, delivering within timescales and meeting other national and local performance targets. * To produce focused and purposeful care plans for interventions with explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes within the context of managing risk to children. * Carry out Investigations into cases where children have suffered or likely to have suffered significant harm. Provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence. * Responsible for planning and providing a range of appropriate services and interventions to meet the needs of children, their families and carers by assessing, arranging, co- ordinating, and monitoring provision within delegated levels of responsibility and in accordance with the required local and national policies, procedures, standards and legislation. * To attend Court where directed, and present evidence * To chair multi agency meetings (eg Children in Need, Child in Need, core group, diversionary meetings) and determine plans from meetings and make recommendations * Responsible for taking decisions and actions on casework, ensuring all matters in respect of child protection are dealt with promptly, effectively and in line with child protection procedures. * Under direction of Team Manager undertake specific pieces of work in relation to customer feedback or representations, complaints, multi-agency projects or service developments and make recommendations or action plans and implement these to improve service delivery. * To contribute to service development as required Benefits of Working with Hampshire County Council: Our Client has free onsite parking with the opportunity for role progression and training for both perm and temporary staff within the authority. They offer a very competitive pay rate which exceeds most of the surrounding areas. Minimum Requirements: * SWE Registration * 1 year post qualifying experience within the UK Social Care industry * Enhanced DBS/CRB (we can obtain for you) * Eligibility to work in the UK Why Choose Ackerman Pierce? Ackerman Pierce calls upon over 15 years' worth of experience in recruiting directly into the Social Work Sector. We can offer a unique experience within recruitment industry where you have your own personal consultant, a DBS and Compliance service with a quick and easy registration process. We pride ourselves on a guaranteed weekly payment process. To discuss the vacancy further or any other opportunities we have in Hampshire please contact George Willett or email in your updated CV to us today.