Children’s Social Care Practitioner

1 month ago


Sand, United Kingdom Peterborough City Council Full time

**Job Summary**:
Contract Type:
Permanent

Working Hours:
Full time

Advert Start Date:
14/06/2023

Advert End Date:
04/07/2023 23:59

Employment Location:
Sand Martin House

**Salary**:
£ 27,852 - £31,099

Weekly Hours:
37

Vacancy ID:
105397

Closing date:
4 Jul

**Further Information**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Children’s Social Care Practitioner to join the Assessment service for Peterborough City Council, an authority judged good in their last Ofsted Inspection.

The Assessment Service investigates concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, makes an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.

As a Children’s Social Care Practitioner within this service, your role will be to assist Social Workers in their duties to safeguard children. This includes:

- completing direct work with children to ensure their voices are heard and influences the plans formulated to keep them safe
- delivering interventions to children and their parents, to progress plans to reduce overall risk and improve outcomes for children
- chairing meetings with families and professionals
- co-working complex cases with allocated social workers

A key part of the role entails building effective relationships with children and families and working collaboratively with our partner agencies.
- A proactive and adaptable approach
- A passion for ensuring that Children and Families receive a positive and timely first experience of our service
- Experience of working within a social care environment.

The benefits of working for Peterborough Assessment Service:

- We operate a 3 week duty rota, and therefore as a team you are only on duty once every 3 weeks
- We have excellent office facilities and have adapted a hybrid model of agile, flexible working, including both home and office working.
- Manageable caseloads
- Minimal vacancies, and the majority of posts are filled with permanent workers
- Good training and development opportunities
- Excellent pension scheme
- Working as part of a supportive and compassionate team with a great sense of community.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Peterborough and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation and the communities we serve.



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