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Job Category : Social & Health Care Non-Qualified
Location : Talfourd Place, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £23.87

.Please ensure candidates have experience as a broker.

Ensuring our children and young people have the best possible placements that are proportionate to their assessed needs and that help them to achieve their full potential is absolutely key. You will be a very experienced, highly motivated, well organised and determined colleague who understands why we must get placements and support right for our children.

We operate in a fast paced and dynamic market place and your work style and work ethic must reflect this.

CHILDREN’s SERVICES: To work as part of the Access To Resources Team – responding quickly to referrals from Social Work Teams seeking the right placement and support for our children and young people.

This is a hybrid role requiring colleagues to be in the office at least 2 days / week and 5 days for the week when they are on duty

work proactively within the Placements Team to ensure all children are placed in suitable
placements, monitoring referral patterns and use of Independent Fostering Agencies (IFAs), and
ensure that senior managers are alerted to any risks or threats in relation to sufficiency.

2. help develop and manage systems that track all referrals, placements, placement moves and
   endings, and ensure that high quality management information is available to assist in the planning
   and review of the service.
3. deliver a responsive and efficient service alongside the Fostering Service: ensure that all parties
   involved in the referral and placement process are kept fully informed when placements are made, and that children’s views are taken into account.
4. undertake the sourcing and negotiation of suitable placements, and to contribute information about the market for health to maintain the quality of services. To keep accurate records and reporting on placement and financial activities by updating individual case notes on Mosaic.
5. negotiate on placement costs/support packages to ensure cost effective placements. Also ensuring placements are agreed and placements contracts (IPAs) are completed in a timely manner as well as Mosaic finances.
6. help put systems in place to ensure foster carers and providers are paid promptly and that any additional or special payments are processed in a fair and transparent way, in keeping with the operating principles of the Fostering Payment Policy.
7. track and maintain an overview of all children waiting for placements and monitor progress on identifying suitable carers. Alert senior managers to any corporate threat or risks relating to the council’s sufficiency strategy.
8. ensure that information systems are fit for purpose and that high quality management information can be produced for a range of indicators. Use management information to inform planning and reviewing the sufficiency strategy.
9. ensure the best use is made of Southwark’s fostering resources, keeping use of external placements to a minimum and promoting the use of Friends and Family Placements as far as possible.
10. keep abreast of local and national changes to best practice when securing placement’s options for children and young people including legislative changes and Ofsted guidance.
11. provide placement briefings to the Team Manager and to senior management when requested.
12. provide professional guidance, support and developmental opportunities with less experienced or knowledgeable social work colleagues, including taking the role of practice educator with social work students.
13. maintain case records and management information on appropriate systems, ensuring that case files are organised and up to date.
14. work with a degree of independence without the need for close supervision, whilst recognising when and how to seek advice from a range of sources. Use supervision to identify strategies to build professional resilience and balance the potential for bias in decision-making.
15. contribute experience and expertise to group and individual supervision processes, to support evidence-informed judgements in complex cases.

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified
Location : Queens Road 1, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £21.64

Children and adult 0 to 25 service. Experience in Child Protection and or assessments required. Strong focus on performance. Will provide training for the right candidate with regards to the Care Act and adult legislation.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Responsibilities

1. Provide focused and purposeful social work interventions, including dealing with a wide range of problems presented by children and young people facing crisis.
2. To take responsive action in accordance with the statutory provision and departmental policy/practice to ensure that individual needs are met.
3. To work within a systemic framework to provide a comprehensive and effective integrated social work service to respond to the needs of children and their families in a timely manner.
4. To be responsible for decisions on the assessment of individual needs and the provision of services at individual customer level. Decisions may have implications on the short and long term future of customers.
5. To ensure the co-ordination and completion of a strength based approach to assessment, the completion of outcome focussed support plans, to support individuals to be active and engaged within their local community and maximise their independence.
6. Work directly with service users and their families and/or carers undertaking clear and accurate strength based assessments, undertake interviews and observations and gather information to capture their voice and that of their family and/or carer.
7. Use a variety of professional skills, including consultation (i.e. pre-referral work), identification, assessment, intervention planning / delivery, review, etc. to (a) promote effective partnerships between service users, their parents and practitioners who work with them and (b) achieve positive outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, adults and families/carers.
8. On the basis of assessed needs and risks, devise, implement and review outcome focussed care plans, including the development and management of protection plans within a child protection framework.
9. Manage a caseload of children and adults (0-25) as directed and organise and plan work activities prioritising tasks and responsibilities within appropriate statutory timeframes.
10. Ensure that statutory responsibilities are undertaken; including visiting, arranging reviews, reporting to the court. Delivering within timescales and meeting any other departmental or national performance targets.
11. Use Social Work expertise to provide reflective case discussion with practitioners and, if appropriate group work or other Social Work services, to individuals, families and other groups.
12. To work closely with other Departments, statutory and independent agencies to meet the complex needs of service users and families/carers within the community.
13. To establish, build links and support local groups, customer representatives, and other local resources which provide informal networks of care.
14. Provide written and verbal reports, that are concise, informative, based on analysis of complex evidence and which make cogent arguments based on evidence.
15. Establish a rapport and build and maintain a professional, respectful and honest relationship with the service user and their family/carer to develop trust and assist in safeguarding and promoting positive and timely outcomes.
16. Maintain case records and management information on appropriate systems, ensuring that case files and all administrative related to the social work function are organised and up to date.
17. Apply research knowledge of social work interventions and statutory guidance to inform social work practice and keep up to date with changes in legislation and developments within social work; to assess the implications of change on children and adults and advise team colleagues accordingly.
18. To actively recognise, uphold and promote the Council’s Equal Opportunity and Diversity agenda.
19. Deliver services flexibly across different parts of the service (as dictated by service need) and within homes, schools or community settings as required.
20. Undertake other duties appropriate to the post and grade that may reasonably be required from time to time.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:
Qualified Social Worker with HCPC registration and evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance and the social work and care management practice, particularly relating to safeguarding practice.
Knowledge of and an understanding and commitment to “social work matters” and its key principles of openness, transparency, accountability, and leadership and to the principles in Southwark’s practice framework (child centred, relationship based, outcome focused, family minded, strengths based, evidence informed, fairness).
Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors.
Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children’s and adult’s agencies.
Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to communities from diverse backgrounds and being familiar with the problems of patterns of deprivation

Experience:
Experience of direct social work with children and their families, as well as adults which includes assessing the needs of the individual, their families and/or carers.
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary service with a range of professionals and of undertaking multi-disciplinary assessments
Ability to demonstrate social work competence within a Learning Disability environment and experience of working with vulnerable children, young people and carers to assess their needs and implement care plans.
Experience of successful working in an integrated manner, including team working and partnership to achieve positive outcomes for children, young people and adults.
Experience of assessment and childcare planning for children in need.
Experience of child protection.

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified
Location : Sumner House, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £28.56

To assess and support foster carers in our community, and where necessary challenging others to have high expectations for Southwark’s children and improve their outcomes.
We work within a systemic framework, offering group supervision and clinical support to work
closely with members of your practice group to supervise and support a group of foster carers. You will help them to develop confidence, skills and expertise in caring for children who have suffered abuse, trauma and loss, assessing where extra support and training is required.
You will work with colleagues in the care and safeguarding teams to maintain these placements as well as matching suitable short and long term placements for children, and to help prepare them for permanence.

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Northcott House, Keyworth & Wren Road Hostel, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:00
Salary: £14.22

This is an additional post as a receptionist withim the hostel to help the Supported Pathways Officers
Mon-Fri 8-4pm
No weekend working or late working

The Receptionist and Service Support Officer is responsible for providing effective and efficient administrative support to the Supported Hostel Service. Their main responsibility is to provide reception desk services, ensuring excellent and quality customer care for all residents, visitors and callers; dealing appropriately with their query.

The Receptionist and Service Support must have the ability to deal with Adults who may be facing difficulties and can sometimes present challenging behaviour, and should be able to deal with this in a highly sensitive and professional manner adhering to health and safety and strict confidentiality procedures.

They will undertake a variety of administrative activities to ensure that service targets are met and continuous improvement is achieved, enabling frontline staff to concentrate on delivering the core business function

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:
Knowledge of the challenges faced by homeless vulnerable and disadvantaged adults

An understanding of the principles of a quality customer care service
Knowledge of Health and Safety issues in relation to a supported housing setting

Experience:
Experience of dealing with customers / members of the public on a professional manner
Extensive administrative experience, including data input and retrieval

Experience of compiling and maintaining records and administrative systems

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies:
Ability to communicate clearly and professional with clients and colleagues
Ability to plan and organise own workload and respond to changing priorities and deadlines
Ability to record written/financial information accurately
Ability to prepare simple reports and correspondence

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Client Location : Luton
Start Date : Immediate start
Salary: Day £14.14 Night £18.85

The job is a support worker role which is a step up from a care worker.
The support worker will be shadowed for 12 weeks.
They will need 6 months of work experience in the UK.
There are 5 roles available which are for Temp to perm with 21 hours. Possible additional hours
The hours are 07:00-11:15 and 17:45-22:00 Monday to Friday and weekends available.
Mileage can be claimed, there is also £80 a month for central care user.
It is contracted so even when there aren’t shifts, they will still receive pay for 4 1/4 hours.
It is £19,000 per annum.
They need to be Drivers with UK Drivers Licences

Job Category : Construction Trades & Operatives

Location : Bute Park Education Centre, Cardiff Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:00

End Time :16:00

Salary: £10.42

We want to recruit 2 x 37 hour pw temp rangers for Bute Park

8am start time

Tues to Sat – 5 days

Sun – Thurs – 5 days

Tues, Wed Thurs overlap to allow for working together on specific tasks

Job description can be provided by email.

Ranger will be based in Bute Park (Visitor Centre).

Job Category : Admin & Clerical

Location : Newcastle Centre, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Hours Per Week :23.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:30

End Time :21:45

Salary: £12.02

Average of 23  hours per week, over 2 week alternating rota – Newcastle Centre

Week 1            

Mon   17:00 – 21:45    (4.75 hrs)

Tue    16:30 – 21:45     (5.25 hrs)

Wed   14:30 – 21:45    (7.25 hrs)

Thu    14:30 – 21:45     (7.25 hrs)

Fri     16:30 – 21:45      (5.25 hrs)

Sat     Off         

Sun    Off         

Week 2            

Mon   Off         

Tue    08:30 – 16:45     (8.25 hrs)

Wed   Off         

Thur   Off         

Fri     08:30 – 16:30      (8 hrs)

Sat    Off          

Sun   Off          

*All shifts are inclusive of breaks (where applicable), which must be taken on-site

Job Category : Administration

Location :West Sussex County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate start

Start Time :09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £12.02

Pay – Grade 6

 Location – Chichester

Working arrangements – (Hybrid and Flexible Working) 

Job description: This job role will be responsible for supporting with tasks associated with the commissioning and contract management of hospital discharge services. Some of the tasks the individual will be required to carry out include: • Working a team email inbox – triaging and forwarding correspondence to the relevant personnel, • Drafting response emails, • Gathering data from service providers regarding the delivery of their service, • Drafting reports highlighting the delivery of hospital discharge services, • Arranging contract management meetings between the providers, the contract officer, and partners from the NHS, • Minute taking of contract management meetings, • Assisting with the processing of invoices and monitoring of budgets, • Assisting with the gathering and analysis of data regarding demand, throughput, and trends, and • Assisting with organising and minute taking of market engagement workshops. The individual is required to have IT, literacy, and numeracy skills, and be able to work as part of a team in an office environment.

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified

Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:30

Salary: £35.90

Key Skills:

1. Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate wide ranging information which may be complex and contentious.

2. The ability to negotiate solutions across wide areas of the business and successfully convince others of the need to take a specific course of action or adopt a specific approach for the safety and protection of children

3. The ability to formulate and oversee plans, within which child safety is promoted, risk is sufficiently managed, permanence is progressed, and aspects of care, development and protection are thoroughly considered.

4. Able to formulate accurate, accessible and comprehensive reports

5. The ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with children of all ages, capturing and responding to their wishes, feelings and lived experiences.

6. Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing needs, in a high pace environment.

Qualifications and/or experience:

• Professional social work qualification and registered with SWE.

• Extensive working knowledge of Child Protection Procedures, The IRO handbook, relevant legislation, regulations and guidance, including Working Together to Safeguard Children.

• Knowledge of Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Legislative Frameworks

• Previous leadership experience within a Children’s Social Care environment

• Comprehensive knowledge of roles and responsibilities of all other agencies involved with children.

• Significant understanding of relevant research, particularly that concerning child development, the effects of separation and loss and attachment theory.

• Detailed experience of child’s journey through social care.

Please only submit candidates who can commit to the working arrangements and happy to work as a CP Chair and on CWCF reviews.   

Key responsibilities

Chair a range of meetings to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, ensuring that plans are formulated and progressed by Children’s Social Care and their partners, that are conducive with ensuring that the best outcomes are achieved for children and their families.

Ensuring that the child’s plan is SMART, outcome focused and that progress is measured in accordance with the impact that the plan is having upon improving children’s outcomes, including promoting permanence for children.

Ensuring that plans formulated are informed by the child’s lived experiences and to engage with children and their families, ensuring that they are supported to share their wishes and views either via attendance and/or representation at all meetings.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate wide ranging information which may be complex and contentious. Including the ability to negotiate solutions across wide areas of the business and successfully convince others of the need to take a specific course of action or adopt a specific policy for the safety and protection of children.

Deliver presentations and training to a range of audiences in a variety of settings.

Provide professional Child Protection, Safeguarding and Permanency planning advice to specified agencies.

Monitor the implementation of the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership procedures and contribute to the development and maintenance of quality multiagency Child Protection and Safeguarding standards and practice.

Provide mentoring/coaching/on the job training to staff to encourage their development.

Ensure that relevant data is collected for quality monitoring purposes.

Lead service projects and/or reviews, or contribute to corporate projects and/or reviews, challenge existing practices and generating ideas and solutions.

Remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of best practice.

Working Arrangements : The post holders can work from the WSCC office closest to them – Horsham, Crawley, Worthing or Bognor Regis. Must be able to travel to chair face to face statutory meetings at venues both within the county and country wide.  Attendance at office required for Service /other meetings. Some home working can be agreed for report writing /admin tasks requirement of the role. 

The role is  a dual role ( CP Chairing and CWCF Reviews, roughly a 50/50 split) and the candidate will be expected to travel into West Sussex most days as conferences are held in the office and CWCF reviews are held at placements.  We need a lot of cover in the north of the county, ie Crawley and Horsham area

Please do not submit candidates who can only work remotely.  

Job Category : Human Resources

Location : Lambeth Civic Centre, London Borough of Lambeth

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £26.05

Recruitment Consultant – Children Services

Objectives 

–           Increase frequency of candidate communication and liaison

–           Reduce onboarding timescales by revising and shortening current service level agreements (e.g. 5 working days from advert request to go-live)

–           Deliver candidate/applicant experience improvements 

–           Improve accessibility of HR advice and guidance to hiring managers

–           Engage HR more directly in supporting the development of strategic Children’s Social Care recruitment projects and initiatives 

Key duties and responsibilities 

–           Primary point of contact for all Children’s Social Care related HR recruitment enquiries

–           End-to-end advert setup and launch

–           Maintaining regular contact with onboarding candidates, chasing references, timely DBS requests, medical screenings, fraud checks – chasing hiring manager as required

–           Monitoring CSC recruitment data and performance

–           Supporting recruitment projects undertaken by Children’s Social Care such as agency absorption sessions, development of campaign assets and managing events

–           Delivering process improvements for candidate and applicant user experience.

Main duties and responsibilities

Operational Delivery 

•          Supports the business to attract talent through effective advertisement of roles internally and externally 

•          Drives a strong candidate experience through high responsiveness and engaging stakeholder management with applicants

•          Approves job descriptions, incorporating an inclusion lens and ensuring roles are appropriately articulated and are aligned to skills and competencies requested in Person Specification

•          Advises line managers on appropriate resourcing solutions (temporary, permanent, agency etc.) dependent on requirement to ensure value for money

•          Outlines interview technique and assessment best practice throughout and provides support where required

•          Reduces the average time to recruit through effective management of processes and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement

Business Protection 

•          Mitigates people related risks by running effective and timely vetting processes

Stakeholder Management 

•          Manages relationship with external recruiters as required and use of those throughout the council to achieve VFM

Flexibility 

The above is not an exhaustive list and the role holder may be required to undertake additional or alternative tasks and duties as the needs of the business dictate, provided they are within the individual’s capabilities and skills set at an appropriate level. 

Variation 

This is a description of the job as required at the date shown. It is the practice of this Authority to periodically examine job descriptions, update them and ensure that they relate to the job performed, or to incorporate any proposed changes. This procedure will be conducted by the appropriate manager in consultation with the postholder.

In these circumstances it will be the aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes, but if agreement is not possible the Head of Service reserves the right to make changes to your job description following consultation.

Experience: Experience working within a recruitment role 

 An understanding of how to use different software and channels (e.g. social media) for advertisement and recruitment purposes Knowledge of candidates selection methods

Qualifications: Desirable but not essential

•          A relevant degree or equivalent qualification OR

•          Studying towards, or willing to study towards a relevant degree or equivalent qualification 

•          A graduate membership of an appropriate professional body e.g. CIPD

Job Category : Housing

Location : 25-27 Bournemouth Road, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £26.04

1.         Contribute to the projects relating to the development and implementation of housing solutions, homelessness prevention, trailblazer initiatives, welfare reform, and temporary accommodation strategies.  

2.         Prepare complex reports and carry out creative and complex work on a number of diverse subjects, involving research and statistical analysis, often where recognised general principles are not completely adequate to determine procedure or decision of cases.  

3.         Analyse the cost of nightly accommodation rates for households in different forms of temporary accommodation and suggest move on arrangements for the most expensive cases.  

4.         Evaluate the most effective package of incentives and accommodation charges to help the Housing Solutions services stay within budget. 

5.         Line management responsibility for four Casework Support Officers, ensuring they meet their targets.  

6.         Operate new technology, including any packages, programmes or systems on the Unit’s personal computers and the Department’s network, whilst, where appropriate, carrying out any of the above duties.  

7.         To lead on the provision of a robust and effective performance management system that ensures data quality is auditable and verifiable. As well as to develop a performance dashboard for the service and disseminate. 

8.         Ensure all literature created and used by the service is non discriminatory and meets equality standards.

This role has management responsibility for officers that utilise Northgate (NEC. 

This role has management responsibility for a data analyst who utilises excel and online reports populated by Northgate.

The role requires a working knowledge of these systems.

The role also involves the uploading of Homeless Case Level Information Collection (HCLIC) by Central Government and so an understanding of the HCLIC specification, along with Northgate as the system where our HCLIC data is held, is vital in the performance of this role.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:

Housing and homelessness and the problems facing local government  

Awareness of the role of service development, data quality and performance management  

Understanding and application of Southwark’s Equalities and Diversity Policy  

Experience:

Experience of disseminating information and giving advice  

Producing high quality work despite pressurised deadlines  

Experience of working on the Northgate Housing System or similar housing database. 

Meeting demanding performance targets  

Developing and managing quality assurance and audit processes  

Using negotiation skills in resolving problems  

Experience of corporate working, team working and joint working with internal and external stakeholders 

Producing high quality work for recurring tasks  

Analysing or reporting on data, such as performance or the outcomes of a project  

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies:

Excellent IT skills to produce, collate and disseminate detailed technical information in a format easily understood by service users and staff  

Ability to use computer systems including word processing, spreadsheets and databases for correspondence and reports  

Ability to gather, analyse and interpret complex information and exercise judgement to make recommendations for improvement  

Able to work on own initiative and be self-motivated and organised, demonstrating passion, drive, flexibility and commitment  

Ability to challenge performance in a positive way retaining the confidence and respect of a variety of stakeholders  

Can do attitude and demonstrable ownership and responsibility  

Ability to gain, and retain, the confidence and respect of staff, service users and other contacts  

Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills  

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified

Location : Powys County Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:30

Salary: £28.10

About the role:?

We are looking for a qualified social worker to join the Children’s Integrated Disability Service, in north Powys. We are a team of social workers and Wellbeing workers that closely link in with health, education, and other organisations to assess and support children with signifcant disabilities or health diagnosis. You will be based in the north of Powys and this role encompasses part office based, part working from home.?

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About you:?

-Highly desirable: experience of working with carers, and children who have a disability or health diagnosis.?

-We are looking for a team player, who is able to think on their feet, think outside of the box, and be willing to support their team where needed.?

-You will need to have person centred skills: our work often requires compassion, good listening skills and empathic approaches to working.?

-You will need to be registered with Social Care Wales.?

-Highly desirable: experience of direct payments and developing care packages for children.?

– Highly desirable: experience of the Signs of Safety approach.?

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What you will do:?

-This social work role encompasses elements from across the field of childrens social work, as the IDS team are a through care team and you could be undertaking a mixture of social work practices; new cases for assessment, Care & support, Child protection, children that are looked after and some court work/ adoption work. ?

-As a qualified social worker, this role will be to hold Care and Support cases, and possibly some initial assessments.

-We are offering a manageable case load, in an experienced, friendly, and supportive team.?

-We support children who have a disability or health diagnosis to lead a happy, stable, and fulfilling life. This could mean supporting children who experience neurological impairment, learning disabilities, and/ or various health diagnosis, such as Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome, genetic conditions, Epilepsy, sensory impairment, and mobility impairment. Some children we support have health input, or a comorbidity diagnosis and could also experience mental illness, trauma, Autism, or ADHD. ?

• DBS: 

Because of the nature of the work involved, the post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check, this position is classed as regulated activity under the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and will be subject to a check to the list of those people barred from working with children. 

Health and Safety Statement: 

To co-operate with their employer and follow health and safety advice and instructions 

Equalities Statement: 

To abide by the principles and practice of equality of opportunity as laid down in the Council’s Equalities Policy 

Welsh Language Requirement 

To have the ability or be prepared to learn within a reasonable time period, how to pronounce Welsh personal and place-names correctly, and give and respond to basic greetings on the telephone or in person. 

Job Category : Revenue & Benefits

Client Location : London Borough of Hillingdon

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £28.72

Undertake work on the Housing Benefit Subsidy by completion of subsidy workbooks including detailed manual calculations. Carry out quality assurance checks on the Housing Benefits, Council Tax. Assist accountants, internal auditors and District Auditors during the annual subsidy audit with particular emphasis on explaining benefit calculations/payments in order to justify that payments have been made in line with Benefit legislation reduction .

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified

Client Location : Queens Road 1, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £23.87

Experience

8. Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context, in addition to formulating and implementing effective intervention plans with families

9. Experience of using persistence, tenacity and flexibility to engage families who may be reluctant to accept the need for help

10.Experience of leading practice developments in work with families and driving evidence based practice within a team and with stakeholders

11. Experience of supervising, training and managing staff undertaking whole family work

12. Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context to support vulnerable families.

Experienced Early Help Practitioners are required to join the Family Help and Support Team tenable as soon as possible. Candidates must be able to work five days per week, Monday to Friday in person. The Family Help and Support team works in partnership and collaboration as part of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub to  ensure that children, young people, families receive an effective service response at the first point of contact with early help. 

The work is varied and challenging requiring the ability to work within tight deadlines and multi task to respond to the needs of families. The role will involve carrying out early help enquiries from MASH, progressing help and support requests to secure access to services and undertaking immediate help visits to support families where appropriate.  This will involve substantial contact with social care, early help teams, universal and community resources

As an experienced practitioner you will deliver an ‘outstanding’ Family Early Help Service as part of Southwark’s Children & Families Directorate, driving best practice in whole family work in a systemically informed way.

Provide specialist knowledge on early intervention best practice, leading on key areas for outcome based interventions (such as Troubled Families risk factors) and drive practice within and across the early help system

Lead on work with families where children have been identified as at risk of poor outcomes

and provide early help for emerging problems in order to improve impact, engage families

better and avoid escalation to higher levels of statutory intervention

Support continued progress of families who have ‘stepped down’ from statutory work and

work with a high level of complexity

Act as a lead professional and work with all family members to assess their needs and

develop a whole family plan to achieve agreed outcomes that promote the safeguarding

of children, attendance at school and positive citizenship

Work directly with children and families and actively engage them in sustainable change

within the resources available, enforcing positive parenting responsibility through a twin

track approach of high challenge and high support.

Job Category : Commercial

Location :London Borough of Newham

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date: Immediate Start   

Start Time : 08:00

End Time : 16:00

Salary: £170.00 per day

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified           

Client Location : County Hall, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week :30.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:30

End Time :17:30

Salary: £30.44

Social worker for the Kinship support pod

Completing Assessment of support needs for special guardianship families, completing support plans and delivering support or identifying appropriate therapist to complete work.

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Location : County Hall, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:30

End Time :17:00

Salary: £30.44

Somerset Council have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our Taunton Assessment team within Children’s Social Care. The key purpose of the role is to improve the outcomes for our most vulnerable young people and families in Somerset to encourage positive change. 

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

– Work with children and families to complete assessments to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of needs and risk, alongside strengths and protective factors, to develop meaningful plans to ensure that children are protected from significant harm and receive the appropriate multi-agency support.

– Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with experience, ability and qualification; receive and respond to referrals from various sources.

– Assess the needs of children and families under the appropriate statutory frameworks, liaising and working with partner agencies, and other Children’s Services teams, as required

– Participate in a duty rota responding to crisis situations and supporting children to remain safely within their families

– Enable and empower individuals’ families and carers to address issues which affect their health, financial, emotional and social wellbeing and to achieve and sustain positive change.

You will be passionate about relationship-based social work, proud of your profession, and able to reflect and think creatively about how you can build relationships to make a difference to children and families.

You will need to be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and have substantial experience working with children and families in social work.

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified

Client Location : Sumner House, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £23.87

Job Category : Administration
Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Pay – Grade 6 – £12.02 Per Hour

Location – Chichester
Working arrangements – Mix of home and office – 1 day in the office and 4 days from home ( candidates can choose to spend more time in office if wish ) There may occasionally be ad hoc additional meetings requiring colleagues to come into the office.

Job description :
We are committed to ensuring continuous improvement in the quality of care for our customers and our expectations of the health and social care market which deliver those services are high. Working as part of a team this role will play a key part in delivering that commitment, working in partnership with customers, Providers, other departments in WSCC and external organisations.
The key purpose of this team will be:

1. To be responsible for the provider monitoring cycle with initially a primary focus on domiciliary care providers
2. Support and assist with responses to provider concerns/failure with a focus on improvement and development in quality. This may include other types of contracted providers (e.g. residential care providers).
3. Support development of clear processes and responsibilities enabling effective coordination and response to performance related information within AS Operations, Safeguarding and Contract colleagues in the H&SC Commissioning teams. Supported by Team Manager and the broader team, you will identify performance issues, agree performance improvement plans and use your knowledge of the contracts performance framework to improve the quality of delivery for customers.
   This will include both onsite and desktop performance checks as part of the monitoring cycle. In addition this will require close working relationships with your colleagues in Adult Services Operations, Health and Social Care Commissioning and Contracts teams and Adults Safeguarding. The Provider Monitoring & Support team will have a countywide remit and some travelling will be required. This team will form part of the Adults Social Care Quality and Improvement team.

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Orchard House, West Sussex County Council
Start Date : Immediate start
Salary: £16.18

This is a bulk order for cook shifts at Children’s care homes, requiring a DBS.