Social Worker Experienced

4 weeks ago

Luton, United Kingdom Connect2Luton Full time

**Role: Social Work**

**Department: Children, Families & Education**

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Social Worker on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Children, Families & Education department.

**Main purpose of position**:
Assess the needs of children and families, analysing information to support the development of care plans. To work closely with children, young people and their families, other staff within the service and partner agencies to provide support and protectionfor children and young people in need and at risk. Assessing their needs to plan and implement suitable multi-agency interventions and service provisions, including completing assessments, statutory visits and parenting assessments.

**As a Social Workeryouwill be responsible to**:

- Complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessments of need and risk in respect of children and families using the Department of Education and Luton's effective support document for children in need and potential significant harm. Taking thelead role to co-ordinate the multi-agency approach to prevent and address child protection issues and children in need.
- Undertake statutory duties under The Children Act 1989 and other legislation and guidance relating to children and families e.g. care proceedings, arrangements for adoption/permanency, risk assessments and investigations in relation to the protection ofchildren. Including arrangements for obtaining and carrying out Court Orders, attending court as the Council's representative.
- Creating effective SMART plans referring to the Practice Framework, using the appropriate available resources ensuring needs are met through negotiation and consultation with professional colleagues and service users. Promote anti-discriminatory practiceand the empowerment of children and families.
- Build positive relationships with children and their families through promoting participation and undertaking direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.

**Skills and Experience**
- Substantial post qualifying experience in social work.
- Able to make professional judgements in a multi-disciplinary setting, assessing the needs of children and families.
- Able to work with vulnerable and challenging cases, where there may be issues of risk with minimum supervision.
- Able to communicate effectively and appropriately (orally and in writing) and work with service users, which will include children and with a wide range of other professionals.
- Able to maintain high quality records, write clear, concise reports and correspondence dealing with complex issues.
- Able to work with the Local Authority's recording system for the purpose of case recording.
- Able to work to strict deadlines and targets which may have conflicting timescales.
- Ability to manage crisis intervention and adhere to health and safety policies.
- Knowledge and understanding of child development and issues of family dynamics and current issues in society.

**DBS**

**About Us**

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for severalyears.

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