Experienced and Qualified Children's Social Worker

Synopsis: Tradewind Social Care are currently recruiting for Qualified Children's Social Worker for various roles in London.

Main duties:

• To provide a high quality and effective social work service to respond to the needs of children and their families in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines
• To assess need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes
• To undertake interviews, observation and gather information from children, families and other agencies
• To analyse, summarise and evaluate this information to provide a holistic assessment of a child's needs
• To understand the context of child development, parenting capacity and family and environmental factors in which to establish the needs of an individual child
• To assess and balance risk and protective factors within a child protection framework
• To provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence
• To review and reassess when necessary and be open to a change of view in response to new evidence

Essential Skills & Experience needed:

• Social Work qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work; DipSW or equivalent
• Be registered with Social Work England
• 2 years minimum experience within the local authority
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure at enhanced level is required

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