Gateshead - Referral and Assessment Team

3 months ago

Gateshead, United Kingdom Digby Morgan Full time

summary
- _ gateshead, north east_
- _ temporary_- specialism
- social care- sub specialism
- social care- reference number
- PR-1203526
- job details

Job Title - Referral and Assessment Team

Location - Gateshead - The team is co-located with our brand-new Trauma informed service (Trusting hands Gateshead)

Are you a compassionate and dedicated social worker with a passion for making a difference in the lives of teenagers?

Gateshead contextual safeguarding team are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Social Workers to join their expanding team. The team consists of adolescent social workers, Edge of Care advocates, homeless prevention workers and a specialist exploitation Workers. The team specialises in harm outside the home and our edge of care advocates work intensively alongside both social workers and families to prevent teenagers coming into care and empowering families to create their own network of support.

**Responsibilities**:
Work alongside our homeless prevention workers and exploitation workers to provide additional support for families

Work alongside a team of specialist health professions which include speech and language therapists, psychologists, specialist nurse practitioners

Weekly multi-agency systemic unit meeting and peer mapping with the Police which gives the opportunity for joint peer reflection on families we are supporting and the worries we may be facing as a team.

The role is both demanding and challenging but the reward and satisfaction of making the lives of teenagers in our local area safer far outweigh these. You need to be a qualified social worker, registered with SWE and an enhanced DBS would be required but you already knew that, whilst that is important, what we think is equally as important is the ability to engage with teenagers, the ability to manage risk and be calm under pressure. We are developing our training offer to the team to ensure that everyone is skilled to face these challenges head on

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

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Job Title - Referral and Assessment Team

Location - Gateshead - The team is co-located with our brand-new Trauma informed service (Trusting hands Gateshead)

Are you a compassionate and dedicated social worker with a passion for making a difference in the lives of teenagers?

Gateshead contextual safeguarding team are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Social Workers to join their expanding team. The team consists of adolescent social workers, Edge of Care advocates, homeless prevention workers and a specialist exploitation Workers. The team specialises in harm outside the home and our edge of care advocates work intensively alongside both social workers and families to prevent teenagers coming into care and empowering families to create their own network of support.

**Responsibilities**:
Work alongside our homeless prevention workers and exploitation workers to provide additional support for families

Work alongside a team of specialist health professions which include speech and language therapists, psychologists, specialist nurse practitioners

Weekly multi-agency systemic unit meeting and peer mapping with the Police which gives the opportunity for joint peer reflection on families we are supporting and the worries we may be facing as a team.

The role is both demanding and challenging but the reward and satisfaction of making the lives of teenagers in our local area safer far outweigh these. You need to be a qualified social worker, registered with SWE and an enhanced DBS would be required but you already knew that, whilst that is important, what we think is equally as important is the ability to engage with teenagers, the ability to manage risk and be calm under pressure. We are developing our training offer to the team to ensure that everyone is skilled to face these challenges head on

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.**experience**:

- Children services-
**skills**:

- be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,can work as an individual or part of a team,caring,competent at dealing with all stakeholders,critical thinking,emotional intelligence,empathy,handling medication,non-judgemental,oral communication,organisational,passionate,patience,report writing (incident logs and daily plans etc),resilient,show initiative,time management,tolerance,understanding,work well under pressure,written communication-
**qualifications**:

- university-
**education**:

- BA in social work

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