Children's Social Worker

Job Description

Service Care Solutions are seeking a highly motivated and reliable Social Worker to join Greenwich Council's Disabled Children and Young People's Service Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide reliable effective social work help and intervention to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need so that children maintain a reasonable standard of health and development, receive reasonable parenting, and have a sense of permanence. Where a child is disabled take action to minimise the effect of their disabilities so they have the opportunity to lead lives as normal a life as possible.
• Identify consistently in a timely way where children are unable to live at home, take action to secure permanence for them within a timescale that meets their needs. Where children are looked after address their needs in accordance with their care plan or pathway plan, so that they make progress and have every opportunity to fulfil their potential as adults.
• Show consistent effective child centred practice with children at the centre of professional assessment, planning, intervention and review activity, and their views and wishes (appropriate to their age and understanding) are sought and used to understand the child's world and shape the level of intervention and type of help offered.

Requirements

• Social Work Qualification
• SWE Registration
• 5 years post qualifying experience
• Enhanced DBS

Apply

Should you wish to apply for this position please email your cv to (url removed) or contact the office on (phone number removed).