Social Work Assistant/family Worker X2

3 weeks ago


Durham, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Social Work Assistant/Family Worker x2**

**Reference no: Durham 6438414826197**

**Pay rate: £12.69 per hour PAYE**

**Hours per week: 35-37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**

**This opening assignment is for 6-7 months**

**City: DURHAM, County Durham**

**Enhanced DBS required for this role**

Key responsibilities:

- Provide or arrange transport to children and young people where required.
- Compile Life Story books for children and young people and complete direct work with children, young people and their families and carers to inform Life Story Work.
- Provide support to the Social Work Team.
- Provide support to the children, young people and their families/ carers where required.
- Work after 5pm most evenings to cover family time after school for an hour.

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF**

**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:
**Qualifications**:

- Level 2 qualification (e.g. NVQ2) in health and social care or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.

**Experience & Knowledge**:

- Significant experience of working in a health or social care environment, providing advice and supporting adults with care and support needs with a wide range of needs including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, long term conditions and dementia.
- Demonstrable experience in developing and reviewing support plans.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of community resources and how to access these.
- Working knowledge of IT packages such as Microsoft Office.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Extremely organised and able to work in a busy environment.
- The ability to liaise effectively and build productive working relationships with other agencies and providers.
- Good IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
- Flexible and able to supervise family time for children after school hours.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.

SC **Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please



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