Qualified Social Worker

Are you looking for a new and exciting role in Children's Social Work?

Are you an ambitious Social Worker with high aspirations to achieve the best outcomes for Children and their Families?

Yes? Look no further…

Randstad are looking for Qualified Social Workers to join Middlesbrough Council's Safeguarding and Care Planning Team.

They are at an exciting juncture in its improvement who have invested in a committed and permanent Senior Leadership and Senior Management Team to help drive improvement and support staff within a culture of development growth. They are looking to build on their work stability to further build their strengths across all levels.

You can expect a fantastic competitive salary.

Benefits:

• A caring, supportive stable management group
• Visible senior management team
• Monthly personal and case supervisions and appraisals
• Monthly reflective discussions and peer audit development sessions
• Investment from management around continued development
• Manageable Caseloads
• Support from the workforce development team
• Emotional well-being support with access to health and wellbeing services such as counselling
• Training
• Flexible working with a mix of office and home-based working
• Practice and positivity weeks quarterly to celebrate good practice.
• Electric Car Scheme
• Market supplement of 15% in addition to competitive salary
• Generous Annual Leave, 27 days rising to 32 after five years' service.
• Pension Scheme

Responsibilities:

• Work with families under the auspices of Child in Need and Child Protection.
• The teams work collaboratively with families to support them to make changes to ensure that their children are safe and that their needs are met. SCP use the Public Law Outline process and if necessary, will progress to the court arena, where efforts to secure safety have not been possible.
• For some children and young people this may mean becoming cared for by the Local Authority.
• Children and young people who become cared for by the local authority will have a looked after care plan. For some children and young people where this plan means they will remain cared for, this will mean they are allocated a new social worker from the Children Looked After Team, however for some children and young people their long-term care plan may be one of adoption. We continue to support and work with these children until they move and are settled with their adoptive families.
• Within the SCP teams, there are also specialist teams working with children and young people at risk of harm outside the home, such as criminal and sexual exploitation (Aspire Team). A team working with parents, where there is a risk or likelihood of unmet needs for their unborn (Pre-birth Team).

Requirements:

• Social Work Qualification or equivalent
• Social Work England registered
• Enhanced DBS

If you are not on the lookout but know someone who is, we have a Refer a Friend Scheme. You could get up to £300 in shopping vouchers.

For more information or confidential discussion, please call ##### ##### 775 or email .

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.