3 months contract with local authority

• Providing high-quality casework and services to vulnerable children and families, ensuring that social work practice is in the best interest of children.
  
• Safeguarding children and improving outcomes for children in terms of their health, education, social and emotional well-being.
  
• Delivering social work services, including early help, assessments, interventions, and reviews, in line with professional frameworks and national performance indicators.
  
• Contributing to a positive team culture and working with Restorative Practice as the overarching analytical practice framework.
  
• Serving as a positive role model for children and families and building partnerships to work collaboratively.
  

1. Prioritize and respond to requests for assistance, establishing sufficient information about the needs of clients to determine the level of risk and the type of support required.
   
2. Maintain accurate case records and fulfill national timescales, procedures, and statutory duties in line with national and local policies.
   
3. Carry out assessments of needs and risk, and liaise with other specialists and agencies as necessary.
   
4. Ensure that assessments, planning, and interventions pay particular attention to individual needs, strengths, and wishes, and include critical reflection and analysis.
   
5. Work respectfully and collaboratively with service users, taking into account the views of children, young people, and their carers.
   
6. Initiate, chair, and participate in reviews, cases conferences, and other professional meetings, and provide reports as required.
   
7. Negotiate with users, carers, and internal and external partners concerning the methods to meet the needs identified by each assessment.
   
8. Assist and enable users and carers to play a full part by extending advice, support, consultation, and guidance.
   
9. Work within budgetary limits and inform the line manager of specific needs which cannot be met due to unavailability of services or budgetary provision.
   
10. Maintain awareness of current research findings and ensure all assessments and plans are informed by research and evidence.
    
11. Actively engage with supervision and review/appraisal arrangements and participate in the creation and implementation of a personal training plan.
    
12. Take responsibility for managing own workload and caseload.
    
13. Maintain high standards of professional practice and conduct, and promote such practice within the organization.
    
14. Maintain an effective system for reviewing assessments, care plans, actions, and services.
    
15. Ensure that services are efficiently and effectively provided and identify gaps in services and advise managers accordingly.
    
16. Promote an awareness of and commitment to the Council’s equal opportunities policy.