Registered Social Worker

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Job title: Registered Social Worker

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Location: County Hall, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP151GA, Monmouthshire County Council

Hours per week 37

Salary: £29.24 per hour

2 -3 DAYS OFFICE AND MON

2 -3 DAYS HOME AND MON

must live within 1 hour drive max of NP15 1GA.

2/3 days office and 2/3 monmouthshire and agile

Lovely supportive management team and working environment.

Pay is £38.43

PURPOSE OF POST:

Manage a Children & Families caseload of various levels of complexity, involving the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of appropriate action, contributing to the effective application of resources to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and their families.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• All functions allocated by the Team Manager, in respect of working with children, young people, their families and carers.

• To possess a high quality of professional social work knowledge and skills.

• To manage a caseload to include complex and diverse cases, involving assessments, reviews and the preparation of reports and court attendance, to effectively meet the needs of the client group.

• To work in a flexible and imaginative way to provide support and advice for children, young people, their families and carers in accordance with the principles of the 1989 Children’s Act.

• To complete quality assessments of individuals and families; analysing strengths and risks.

• To formulate plans to meet assessed needs and risks building on strengths of children, families and carers.

• To implement agreed plans to safeguard children and to increase the capacity and resilience of their parents and/or carers.

• To undertake office duty and respond to crises, as and when required.

• To assist in developing the existing services for children, their families and carers and to help shape future services.

• To work as part of a team and thereby contribute to the development of the service.

• To supervise students, where appropriate.

• To initiate and develop effective working relationships with foster carers as professionals.

• To initiate and develop effective working relationships with partner agencies.

• To develop own professional skills through supervision sessions and through undertaking appropriate training and development.

• To maintain awareness of changes in legislation, related policies and practices and implement these within own professional practice.

• To maintain accurate records, which are up-to-date.

• To work in a flexible way, if the need arises, so that tasks not specifically covered in the job description are undertaken.

• To maintain safe working practices for self and others, in accordance with the authority’s policy statement on Health and Safety at Work.

• To abide by the principles and practice of equality of opportunity as laid down in the Council’s Equal Opportunities Policy.

Here’s what we can provide you with:-

· The opportunity to work within a friendly and dynamic team and make a real difference to the lives of children and families in Monmouthshire

· The chance to help shape the future provision for service users

· High quality support and supervision in a friendly and motivated environment

· Quality training in order to professionally and personally develop your skills and experience

· Opportunity to develop welsh language skills in line with the ‘ more than words’ strategy’

· An extra days holiday at Christmas and Easter on top of your generous holiday allowance

· In line with Service objectives, flexibility to work agilely and flexibly in order to achieve a positive work life balance

· Excellent pension scheme and a range of other benefits

What else you need to know…..Monmouthshire Values are:

Openness: We aspire to be open and honest to develop trusting relationships.

Fairness: We aspire to provide fair choice, opportunities and experiences and become an organisation built on mutual respect.

Flexibility: We aspire to be flexible in our thinking and action to become an effective and efficient organisation.

Teamwork: We aspire to work together to share our successes and failures by building on our strengths and supporting one another to achieve our goals.

Kindness: We will show kindness to all those we work with, putting the importance of relationships and the connections we have with one another at the heart of all interactions.