£Grade 11
Point 30 to Point 32
£38,223 to £40,221 per annum
£19.81 to £20.84 + Market supplement applies per year
Area of care
Childcare
Workplace
Social Work Services / Social Services
Job role
Social Worker
Job description
Social Worker Through Care 14+ Job description Join our recruitment event! You can find out more about this vacancy and other similar positions at our online Children's Services recruitment event on 26 th September 2024. Visit Join our recruitment event! You can find out more about this vacancy and other similar positions at our online Children's Services recruitment event on 26 th September 2024. Visit www.powys.gov.uk/sc-events for details.
An additional market supplement premium applies to this role - this will be discussed at interview
About the role:
The 14+ Through Care Team focuses on supporting our Children Looked After during their adolescence and into adulthood.
We try to ensure wellbeing, stability, educational achievement, safety and positive outcomes for all of our Children Looked After through working collaboratively with them, parents/carers and professionals.
We are an established team consisting of Social Workers, Personal Advisors, Support Workers and a Team Co- Ordinator who assists with various tasks including organising and minuting meetings, preparing chronologies and general business support.
About you:
A passion for helping to support disadvantaged young people to be able to achieve positive outcomes.
Key skills in engaging with, and building a rapport with, adolescents who may be difficult to engage and display challenging behaviour.
The ability to identify risk and manage complex situations.
Strong assessment and written skills.
To be a team player with the ability to work with a range of professionals from different agencies but also the ability to work independently as required. A flexible approach to working and a can do attitude.
Knowledge and skills, or the willingness to learn, around working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.
What you will do:
To provide a social work service to young people with a view to keeping them safe and enabling them to achieve to their fullest potential.
To work as part of a team, undertaking tasks on a duty rotational basis, and providing cover for absent colleagues.
To foster and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and partners that enable the team to work effectively.
To identify risk issues in relation to the circumstances of individual children, and to ensure that there is safeguarding in place in order to minimise risk.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact:
Principle Social Workers, Sarah Cummins [email protected] or Ben Christofides [email protected]
This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check
The closing date has been extended to 06/10/2024
How to apply
View full job description and apply on the employers website
