MASH Social Worker - Sheffield

Childrens Social Worker - MASH

Location: Sheffield

Rate: £35 umbrella

Hours: 37 Per week

Start: ASAP

A Childrens Social Worker is required for the MASH Team in Sheffield.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced social worker to join our team in playing an integral role in promoting the safety and wellbeing of children and their families across Sheffield.

The Sheffield Safeguarding Hub brings together a range of statutory and non-statutory resources involved in supporting and safeguarding the welfare of children in the City of Sheffield. We work together to provide the highest level of knowledge and analysis, ensuring that activity and intervention is timely, proportionate and necessary.

In this role you will work as a key member of a Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub with the primary function of undertaking screening and responding to all new referrals into children’s social care. The Safeguarding Hub is the first point of contact for children, young people and families in need or in need of safeguarding within the City of Sheffield. You will be a member of a team delivering high quality and effective services to children, young people, and their families/carers. Additionally, you will promote and safeguard the welfare of children who live in the city complying with relevant legislation and regulation, maintaining the highest professional standards and ensure the consistent application of the threshold to step up from early help to children’s social care.

You must be a qualified and registered experienced social workers with significant experience in statutory services who have strong communication, engagement and analytical skills to allow them to safeguard children & young people and engage effectively with a wide range of agencies. You will have a sound knowledge of relevant legislation and experience of working in a front line team with a thorough understanding of thresholds and universal services. You will ensure that you apply consistently high standards to ensure better outcomes for children and their families.

We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable children and young people are effectively supported to reach their full potential, delivered through our effective early help and prevention services, and strong partnerships that ensure safeguarding remains the highest priority for children and young people in Sheffield. To help deliver our vision, we need experienced, self-motivated, innovative and creative social work professionals. You will need experience and skills in multi-agency partnership working across Children's Services and be able to promote co-operation, working together with other organisations and service users as the means of shaping, developing and delivering services.Duties include:

• Answer incoming calls, providing advice and guidance to the public and professionals with safeguarding concerns.
• Referring / signposting them to early help and other preventative services if required.

Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following:

• DIPSW or equivalent qualification in Social Work
• Social Work England registration
• Enhanced and in date DBS certificate.
• Excellent communication skills and be able to make good decisions based on information available.
• Previous MASH Experience
• Can work alone and within/contribute to a team/multi-agency set ups.
• Possess knowledge of service needs.
• Competent IT skills and be able to navigate electronic file/recording systems.
• Can write clear, concise, and robust assessment/reports/files.
• Have a flexible approach to work and working hours when the need arises

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