Social Worker
3 weeks ago
An exciting opportunity has opened within Independent Futures where we have created a specialist Leaving Care Service for children and young people age 16-25 years old. Islington has a vacancy for a social worker who is motivated, passionate and able to workwith children and young people sometimes in challenging circumstances. You will be trained in Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Inform Practice to ensure sustainability of practice across the service.
As a social worker, you will need to hold a qualification in social work, a clear criminal history and you need to be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. You will bring the principles of dignity, respect, empathy, and a strength based,collaborative approach to service delivery. You will need to be able to work within a team as well as use your own initiative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
You will be responsible for managing the specific set of tasks relating to statutory and non-statutory case responsibility for children in need of help and protection, in public care and young people leaving care with the support of an appropriately qualifiedsupervisor.
You will be skilled at building effecting relationships with children, young people and families to keep them safe, bring about change and improve their outcomes.
You will have excellent communication skills with children, young people and families as well as with carers and professionals taking into consideration equality and diversity and life experiences and the meaning behind behaviour. You will also have excellentskills when it comes to writing case notes, reports and assessments, including analysis, decision-making, planning and review.
Working for Islington:
Islington Children Social Care was rated by OFSTED as Outstanding in March 2020. The Children Looked After teams are well resourced and enjoy a stable and supportive workforce. You will be joining a multi-professional team made up of experienced managers, SeniorSocial Workers, Social Workers, Young Person Advisors, Mental Health Social Worker, CAMHS professionals, a UASC specialist and Social Work Coordinators.
The Independent Futures Service is well resourced and enjoys a stable and supportive workforce. We take pride in providing a learning environment where staff can develop and our controlled caseloads, safe working practices, a culture of strong supervision andexcellent training opportunities enable a supportive working environment for all staff. We offer training and supervision to develop your skills. We have opportunities to consult with clinicians on cases and offer a range of appropriate support services in-boroughfor our children and young people.
Our children, young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do and the development of our practice model allows us to them towards their version of meaningful and sustained changed. Islington’s Motivational Practice Model provides an integratedcare, safeguarding and change model, which includes Motivational Interviewing skills helping to build meaningful relationships and promote safety, collaboration and purposeful change.
Our practice model is further complemented by Trauma-informed practice (including Dyadic Development Practice), as we believe that by better understanding the lived experiences of those we are here to serve, we are better positioned to engage, support and assistchildren and young people to reach their full potential.
Relationships are also central to achieving the very best outcome for our children, young people, their families and their carers. We work closely with our fostering team and placements service to support our carers in offering a trauma informed approach tocare, and to offer stable placements where our children and young people can achieve their potential. Therefore, relationship-based practice is key to our approach.
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