Qualified Social Worker

We are working with Surrey to recruit Social Workers and Senior Social Workers in Family Safeguarding.

Surrey aims to work alongside families, to respect families and their rights, to work with them in partnership and with their informed consent, to recognise their strengths and help them identify their needs. Our overarching duty is to promote the upbringingof children within their families, where this is compatible with the welfare of the children.Social workers in Surrey will be supported to develop high levels of skill in motivational practice which they will use to help parents identify the aspects of theirlives/behaviours that they want to change and provide the help and support families, on a partnership basis, that they need to support them in their change. Specific areas of work will vary depending on the team but will include: - management of triage ofcontacts to the service to ascertain whether contacts from families, members of the community and partner organisations meet the threshold for a statutory social work assessment of significant impairment of a child's health/development or significant harm,with appropriate information from referrers and the consent of the family (except when over-ridden by a team manager to protect a child from further significant harm) -to provide an assessment of the needs of family members, their strengths and any risks tochildren's health/development or significant harm to the child/ren and develop SMART plans that will meet the needs of family members and reduce risks to children, in conjunction with children and their families and in the most complex cases-to work with partnersto meet those needs and monitor progress via child in need and core group meetings involving families, young people and relevant professionals-to chair reviews of children in need cases, strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings and professional'smeetings on complex cases -to conduct complex child protection investigations where a multi-agency strategy discussion considers there are grounds to believe the child has or is likely to suffer significant harm and to involve families in developing plansfor change which will reduce the risk of significant harm and keep children in their families wherever possible.
- to work with colleagues in commissioning, fostering and adoption to identify high quality placements for children that will promote keeping children with their siblings and engage in timely care planning so children are placed in stable long-term homeswhere their health and development as well as education and training needs are supported and they can strengthen their resilience to lead a happy and stable adult life-ensure that social work case records, assessments, plans and documentation for all childrenand young people for whom the worker is responsible are effectively maintained in line with practice standards and organisational policy and procedure.foster good relationships with legal services and local family courts to manage efficient and effectiveLegal Planning Meeting, Public Law Outline and court proceedings where attempts to support children to remain within their families have not been successful. -promote purposeful social work practice, following the service's parenting/group work programmes,and undertake regular clinical and case work supervision that is reflective and outlines clearly the next steps to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.manage effective communication of practice, service and organisational issues withinthe team and work collaboratively across other social work teams, services and with partners to provide high-level integrated support to children and families.ensure that in all aspects of work that the views, feelings and wishes of children, young peopleand their parents /carers are taken seriously and used to appropriately inform their care plans and development and performance of services.Casework Management Provide high quality relationship based social work services to children and families at tier 4level

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