Qualified Social worker - Parenting Assessment - £37p/h - South London

Tripod is looking to speak to Qualified Social workers with parenting assessment experience

£37p/h

Hybrid working

South London

We are recruiting Social Workers into the Meliot Family Centre The Meliot Centre is a specialist provision that offers wide range of services, which include family assessment, intervention and support to children and families who live in London Borough of Lewisham who may be 'inneed’ or at risk of harm. We also offer supervised contact to families where they have children subject to care proceedings.

We are specifically recruiting Social Workers to specialist posts focusing on parenting assessment work. You will complete pre-proceedings and court directed parenting assessments as well as domestic abuse risk and vulnerability assessments. To be able to undertake a variety of assessments you will be trained receive domestic abuse assessment training via Respect and will also be trained in Parent Assess. As an assessor you will be able to utilise the family support and contact service to support to inform the outcome of your assessment, offering targeted intervention and support to help parents address their difficulties in order to parent their children in the way that they need to enable them to meet the full potential.

We are a borough who works within the Signs of Safety framework, and this provides us with our overarching approach to working with families. We also adopt a number of other approaches to help understand and work with our families, such as trauma informed and restorative practice. We use signs of safety mapping to explore and analyse the work we are doing with families and to also help us consider recommendations. You will be offered access to regular Signs of Safety training and the opportunity to become a practice leader through attending the 5 day practice leader’s course.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own designated consultant and one point of contact
• CV review service
• Interview advice and preparation
• Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fee

For more information, please contact Lee Vincent at Tripod Partners