Specialist Assessment Social Worker

24 hours ago


Warrington, United Kingdom Reed Social Care Full time

**Are you looking to make a difference in Children's lives? Do you have?social?work experience of working within children's services?**

**Specialist Assessment Social Worker (up to £40 per-hour)**

Base: Warrington Central (mixture of home working and office based)

We are looking for an experienced social worker to come and join us in the recently created role. You will not have a caseload, however you will have the primary responsibility for the assessment identified for you to undertake. The primary purpose and scopeof the job is undertake specialist assessments (i.e. sibling assessments, Reg 24/viability assessments, special guardianship reports etc) during PLO or when children are placed under Section 20. We see this as a critical role in helping to ensure we make timelyand appropriate decisions when permanence planning for our children.

A bit about us
We have a strong vision for social work practice in Warrington and are developing a new approach to social work. We are currently embedding a relationship based practice model that has systemic practice at its core. We are working alongside the Centre for SystemicSocial Work, who are providing a comprehensive training programme to social workers and managers across our teams.
We have six CIN teams, each team has Team manager who is eager to support and develop all social workers alongside the senior practitioner. Our teams support families through CIN, Child Protection and when required care proceeding. We recognise that the rolecan be challenging and we have a range of exciting and impactful developments in Warrington that our social workers can utilise in supporting families, including:

- No wrong door - a multi-agency hub where young people at risk of going into care get targeted support to cope with the multiple issues they face;
- Families first (which includes Family Group Conference Co-ordinators, PAMS assessors and family support workers);
- A family time service (to assist in arranging and supervising the time that our children in care spend with their families);
- Restore - a service designed to work with Mothers who are pregnant and have children previously moved, with the aim of reducing repeat removals;
- Administrative team - the team are able to assist with taking minutes of meetings, scanning documents onto the system and other administrative tasks

Here in Warrington we are proud to be graded Good in all areas in our 2019 Ofsted inspection. Which says;
- We are within easy commutable distance of Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside regions. In addition, we offer flexible working - including a blend of working from home/remotely
- Be a QSW, registered with Social Work England
- Have relevant experience
- Valid DBS on the update service

**Benefits of working through Reed, include:**
- Dedicated Recruitment Consultant/Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Free CV building and Interview support
- Free DBS checks
- Weekly payroll
- PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more
- CPD contributions
- Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients
- Refer a Friend scheme and earn up to £250
- Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010


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