Linked Worker X5

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Linked Worker Accommodation - Placement Support x5**
**Reference no: Stockton on Tees 7479413894475**
**Pay rate £14.44 per hour PAYE**
**This opening assignment is for 1-2 months**
**Enhanced DBS required for this role** Provide a keeping in touch service during times of significant distress and crisis to children, young people and families/carers. Keeping in touch, supporting and linking in with families, carers and children and young people in fragile placements, providing assistance to identify needs. Contacting and visiting children, young people and families/carers in the community and at home to respond and provide action to identified needs. Providing a signposting role and during times of significant distress for families and children taking a proactive role as the link to other services and or professionals to ensure support is accessible. This may include accompany children and young people, families and carers to appointments or other, as identified and needed in order clients are helped to navigate through services Key responsibilities:

- Supporting the allocated social worker
- Contribute to the achievement of service objectives.
- Contribute to the learning and development of people in the team and undertake your own personal development.
- Contribute to the achievement of financial objectives.
- Work flexibly across Children’s Services and with other agencies, partners and stakeholders to safeguard and meet the needs of children, young people and families.
- Promote a positive workforce culture that is focussed on delivering excellent customer service and ongoing service improvement.
- Support and promote the ongoing work, development and improvement of the Directorate and the Council.
- You may be requested to lead on specific projects, take on responsibility for other areas of work and deputise for your line manager when required

**“Role Requirements” - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria**:

- Recognised Level 3 qualification in an appropriate discipline e.g. health and social care, education And/or Equivalent level of knowledge gained through relevant work experience and the commitment and ability to undertake a recognised level 3 qualification
- Good knowledge of relevant legislation and practice including experience of working in an environment where safeguarding children is a priority.
- Experience of working in partnership with families
- Experience of working with a range of agencies including schools, health professionals and social care
- Experience of working the client group
- Excellent communication and negotiating skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to relate well to different groups of people
- Ability to work in partnership with other agencies and professionals

**by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. SEE DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AD.**
**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**
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**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**:

- **Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.**
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- 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.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.

**Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable**:

- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.

**Job Ref: Stockton on Tees 7479413894475**

**Anticipated Length of Assignment**: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become per