Childrens Social Worker - Out of Hours - Reed : Job Details

Our Client, Stockport Council, is seeking a Children’s Social Worker to join their Out of Hours Team.

Fantastic payrate of £38 per hour!

Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

• To ensure an effective response to children, young people and adults in need of social work intervention when incident of concern or crisis arise outside of usual business working hours.
• To have demonstrable knowledge of child protection, safeguarding children and adults, early help and care of looked after children and apply this to practice within the Out of Hours Service.
• To keep abreast of new legislation and methods of work across Children’s Services and Adult Services.
• Using professional judgement employ a range of interventions ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks.
• To be responsible for identifying the need to initiate s47 children protection investigations and adult safeguarding investigations, including leading on the co-ordination and chairing of multi agency strategy discussions.
• To make effective use of delegated responsibility to make immediate case decision to keep children and adults safe and call in for the oversight of senior management team on call in line with service lead on call terms of reference.

Requirements of this role:

• Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
• Must have minimum of 2 years’ post qualified experience.
• Must have at least 2 years experience in a similar role.

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

• Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
• Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
• Free CV building and Interview support.
• Free DBS checks.
• Weekly payroll.
• PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
• CPD contributions.
• Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
• Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!