Social Worker - Family Res & Safeguarding

About Us:

Hire Stone Recruitment Ltd is a leading recruitment agency committed to connecting talented professionals with meaningful opportunities. We are currently seeking a dedicated and compassionate Social Worker for a Parenting Support role to join our esteemed client's team. Role involves working with unaccompanied assylum seeking children.

Job Overview:

As a Social Worker specializing in Parenting Support, you will play a crucial role in providing assistance, guidance, and support to families in various situations. You will work closely with parents to enhance their parenting skills, address challenges, and promote the overall well-being of children within the family unit.

Representative Accountabilities

Casework Management
• Take professional responsibility as directed for managing a caseload which will include individuals, children, families and carers who require support
and guidance. Enable them to identify their needs and plan support to meet those needs using the full range of options, seeking advice and support
where appropriate.
• Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision making.
Assessment and Review
• Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way
that enables maximum participation.

Advice and Guidance
• Provide information, advice and guidance in line with current national legislation and to recognise the need for, and appropriately signpost to other
agencies, services or providers.

Safeguarding
• Understand the forms of harm and their impact on people and be able to identify safeguarding concerns.
• Where relevant and with support undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding.

Staff Development
• Share and present professional knowledge and expertise with colleagues within the team.
• When appropriate provide professional reflective supervision to staff who are not professionally qualified.

Data Quality
• Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis and judgements, maintaining up to date case work records on the
database as required by Client.
• Take responsibility for working within the Directorate's data protection policies.

Duties For All
Values: To uphold the values and behaviours of the organisation.
Equality & Diversity: To work inclusively, with a diverse range of stakeholders and promote equality of opportunity.
Health, safety and welfare: To maintain high standards of Health, Safety and Welfare at work and take reasonable care for the health and safety of
themselves and others.

Required Qualifications and/or experience
Professional social work qualification, CQSW or Diploma in Social Work (DipSW), or other relevant qualification recognised by the HCPC.
Registered or in process of registering with the HCPC.
Substantial experience in assessing the needs of, and undertaking direct work with children and young people, with a track record of improving children
and young people's lives in a UK statutory setting.
Able to demonstrate understanding of the needs of children/young people in their specialist area
Ability to evidence skills in or willingness to develop Motivational Interviewing practice.
Up to date working knowledge of relevant UK child care law, statutory guidance and Working Together 2018
Ability to relate well to children and families, to respect their rights and gain their informed consent, to engage them in reflecting on their lives and
motivate them to change so children’s needs can be met and they can be brought up safely within their families.
Promote positive working relationships in and across teams, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
Ability to communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or challenging situations
Ability to gather information to inform judgement for interventions and develop SMART plans to meet children and families' needs/reduce risk
Excellent partnership working skills with an ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector
organisations.
Satisfactory DBS clearance is required.
Willing and able to travel around the county to meet the demands of the role, to work from different sites, and work evenings and weekends if required in
line with service needs.

Role summary:
Roles at this level provide professional social work, occupational therapy and other support to individuals, children, families and carers living in Surrey
in line with the requirements of current, relevant, national legislation and local policies and procedures. They engage with individuals, children, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene and using professional judgement employ a range of interventions promoting choice, control and
independence.