Opus people solutions on behalf of Cambridge County Council have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join their Safeguarding Team.
Job Title: Social Worker - Safeguarding & Family Support
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: �33.30
Location:Darby House
Remote/Office based: Hybrid
- Manage a caseload with various levels of complexity.
- In doing so the postholder will lead on complex assessments and provide evidence as necessary in court proceedings.
- To practice effectively, exercising high quality judgements in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge in Children's Services, acting with confidence and considerable autonomy
- Ability to assess situations effectively, determine which interventions, knowledge and skills should be deployed, and ability to anticipate the possible progress of issues and options without pre-judging.
- To integrate professional knowledge, the views of people using services and research/evaluation evidence into practice.
- Ability to use knowledge and skills to take more initiative and continue to broaden and deepen a broad repertoire of responses.
- To have expertise in one or more areas of practice, be familiar with and linked in to local and national resource networks.
If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.