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4 days ago
Children’s Social Worker, UASC team, West Sussex Pay rate to £38 - 42 per hour Contract role, UASC / Looked After Children / Child in Care Team Pertemps are recruiting for experienced Children’s Social Worker in West Sussex. This is to work with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children The Children’s Asylum Team is responsible for meeting the welfare needs of under 18s from a range of nationalities in local authority care. These are unaccompanied asylum seeking and trafficked children. Social Workers must be competent and experienced at working cross-culturally, from a trauma-informed perspective and using interpreters. Social Workers will be required to ensure that UASC access all essential services (education, health and legal) and additional services (voluntary sector) to meet their cultural needs and help them integrate socially. Social Workers must manage a complex caseload of young people from a variety of backgrounds, who have experienced trauma and loss, can feel isolated or struggle to adjust to life in Britain and in their new care settings. Social Workers will need to work closely with foster carers, supported lodgings providers, deal with placement moves and breakdowns, make referrals to the National Referral Mechanism, liaise with legal professionals and make assessments of family members as potential permanent carers. Social Workers will need to be prepared to travel daily to undertake statutory visits, including out of county at times, so you must be a car driver. An understanding of the asylum progress and triple track Care/Pathway planning would be helpful. There is plenty of hybrid working available. Please get in touch for more information. This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:- A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to An easy registration process (all done online) Referral schemes and incentives Ongoing compliance managed for you Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
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