Social Services Professional

1 month ago


Powys, United Kingdom Powys County Council Full time

About the Role:

The Care and Support Team focuses on providing a social work service to individual children and young people, ensuring their safety and enabling them to achieve their full potential. The team works with children, young people, and their families where there has been a Social Work assessment and where they have been identified as needing additional services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • To provide a social work service to individual children and young people, ensuring their safety and enabling them to achieve their full potential.
  • To work as part of a team, undertaking tasks on a duty rotational basis, and providing cover for absent colleagues.
  • To foster and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and partners that enable the team to work effectively.
  • To identify risk issues in relation to the circumstances of individual children, and to ensure that there is safeguarding in place in order to minimise risk.

Requirements:

  • You will be able to provide appropriate support to children and families, using your enthusiasm and motivation to promote successful outcomes.
  • You will be skilful and confident in your communication with others so as to sustain engagement with families in fluctuating circumstances, including where there is hostility and risk.
  • You will be creative in your work with children and adopt the use of tools to encourage them to share their wishes and feelings.
  • You will require a wide range of knowledge and skills to identify the full range of risks to children and help manage those risks; ensuring proportionate and timely intervention is provided.

Contact Details:

Janette McEwan Team Manager or Juliet Grey Principal Social Worker

This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check



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