Social Worker Children's Disabilities

Social Worker Children's Disability Team

Locum

Assignment Length: 3 -6 Months

Rate: £38 per hour

Location: Havant

Hampshire County Council are recruiting a Social Worker in their Children's Disability Team.

Responsibilities

• Working with children who have a complex disabilities and support their families in meeting the needs of children and their disabilities.
• Using professional knowledge and experience to make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions.
• Establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.

In order to achieve outcomes appropriate to their potential and as a result of their disability, the child requires total or substantial support, appropriate to their age, from another person, which is not available within the family network.

The child should also meet one or more of the following criteria:

• they use specialist equipment for mobility
• they require support for all basic self care functions when no longer age appropriate
• they need constant supervision throughout the day and for prolonged periods at night, when no longer age appropriate
• they have behaviour that is a direct function of their disability that poses serious risk to self and or others, including self- harm
• they have communication needs which, without support, severely affects personal safety, i.e. is deaf, blind or without speech
• they have been assessed as having either of the following conditions, which results in significant risk of self-harm or harm to others:
  • Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD)
  • Severe Learning Disability (SLD) and/or Global Developmental Delay with challenging behaviour
  • Children that have a diagnosis of Autism made using the DSM-5 with a severity category of level 3

Requirements

• 3 years post qualifying experience
• Social work degree
• Experience of working with children and families in social work setting
• Knowledge of child protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues and substitute care

Benefits

• A 9 day working fortnight
• Annual leave of 25 days per annum
• A personal assistant, who will provide crucial back office support to free up your time to focus on professional practice.
• A hybrid tablet device, so you can work more effectively and flexibly.
• 5 personal development days per annum.
• Access to permanent vacancies as they are released.
• Flexible working options to fit around today's lifestyle
• £42 per hour umbrella rate

About Us

Connect2Hampshire is a managed service agency owned by Hampshire County Council providing temporary, contract and interim opportunities into the Council. Our service is built on our values of ethical, trustworthy, and caring, and our profits are returned to our Local Authority shareholders.

Connect2Hampshire, part of Hampshire & Kent Commercial Services LLP, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.