Express Nursing are recruiting Children's Social Workers for The Royal Borough of Greenwich.
The Social Worker in the Child Care Management Team will carry out social work tasks related to assessments, care planning, and the development of support packages in order to promote the welfare of children.
• 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.
• Provide effective professional leadership so that professionals work together to meet the needs of children in need, including those with a child protection plan, privately fostered children, and looked after children and care leavers.
• Work with parents / carers to strengthen protective factors and reduce risks to the child’s welfare, where seeking to establishing rapport and trust as a basis for parents changing their behaviour so that the child receives safe reasonable parenting, or where parental cooperation is not forthcoming and there is no other way of safeguarding the child, pursue alternative arrangements for the child’s upbringing.
• Work with foster carers, special guardians, prospective adopters and other people who are looking after someone else’s children, so that children’s needs are met and that they are able to live as normal a life as possible, understand their journey to their placement, are making good progress in terms of their health, development and education, and are prepared for their transition to adult life.
Contract until 01/09/2024
37 hours per week 9am - 17:00pm
Requirements:
To apply for these shifts you must be fully registered with our agency as we offer them to our compliant and registered healthcare workers first. This includes all training certificates, registration forms and right to work checks. Please contact our compliance team for more information or to obtain and registration pack.
You must have experience with in a similar healthcare setting and have 12+ months post registration experience to be considered. SCW checks and all compliance checks will be conducted before you are offered shifts.
In order to maximise your shift offering, please ensure we have all of your availability for the upcoming months to ensure that we can offer you the most work possible and not contact you for shifts we know you are not available for.
Benefits of working with Express Nursing
Highly competitive pay rates
Shifts or block bookings to suit
£300 refer a friend bonus
SCW, training and appraisals paid for annual once completing 25 shifts
This role is being advertised by Chantelle. Please call 01400 228 835 for more information.
