Social Workers

Children's Social Workers
Salary ranges: £27,041 - £45,000 (dependent on post and experience level)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contractual Status: Permanent

We have a number of exciting opportunities to support children and young people in the Middlesbrough area.

Benefits to you

Based in the center of Middlesbrough, you can benefit from free parking, flexible working giving a greater work life balance to practitioners.

Together with a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package, experienced Social workers may also receive a retention payment of 15% of your annual salary paid in a lump sum on commencement of the post.

Also available is Flexible working with a mix of office and home-based working, Practice and positivity weeks quarterly to celebrate good practice. An Electric Car Scheme, Generous Annual Leave, 27 days rising to 32 after five years' service and a fabulous Pension Scheme and extensive training opportunities.

Roles available

Pathways

The team provides an assessment of needs for young people who are preparing to leave care and the development of a pathway plan to meet these needs. The team works closely with partners as corporate parents to support children to develop their life skills to achieve their full potential and work towards their aspirations.

Children in our Care Teams

Following care proceedings, there is a plan for every child or young person to remain living outside of the family; they will be allocated a social worker from one of these teams. The Children in Our Care teams also have the support of Resources Workers who help social workers to complete Life Story work for our children and young people to understand their journey's and also support facilitating and supervising family time.

Children In Our Care Social Workers will work with our children and young people towards making sure their care plans are progressed.

Safeguarding and Care planning teams

The Safeguarding and Care Planning Teams 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.

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).

Assessment teams

Assessment Teams work with children, young people and their families where referrals into children's social care have identified a need for Level 4 support. Social workers in the Assessment Teams complete S47 visits to children following strategies. Progress children's planning to Initial Child Protection Conferences and Public Law Outline where required prior to transfer to the SCP teams. There is some initial court work undertaken, however this is minimal as involvement transfers to the SCP teams at the first hearing.
Direct work with children and young people is an integral part of the Assessment Teams practice as this helps us to understand children and young peoples' daily experiences. The Assessment Teams work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and also with agency professionals as part of producing robust meaningful assessments of children and young people's needs.

Be the difference you want to see

There has recently been set out city-scale plans to deliver over GBP 600 million of investment that will promote economic growth and strengthen both the regional and national reputation as a destination of choice.Middlesbrough is a fantastic place, proud of its heritage and ambitious enough to shape an entirely different future. This is your chance to be part of the team to transform social work practices and make a difference to the lives of the families and young people of Middlesbrough.

Why work for our client in Middlesbrough?

You will join a fast paced, dynamic team of social workers, bringing the right skills, knowledge and values to Middlesbrough. If you want to be part of the transformation making a real difference to people's lives you will be passionate about working with children, operate with integrity and have a strong focus to keep children safe in Middlesbrough.

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.