Swindon's Emergency Duty Service is the Local Authority's Out of Hours first point of contact for anyone who is concerned about the immediate safety and protection of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. As a casual Social Worker, you will provide shifts on the rota on an Ad Hoc basis as and when the rota requires. The team is responsible for delivering a high quality and responsive service to children, young people and vulnerable adults. EDS covers a wide spectrum of social work practice. They predominantly undertake a range of assessments and interventions. The majority of EDS work is Child Protection, Adult Safeguarding and urgent Mental Health Act assessments. The team works closely with our police and health protection partners, ensuring the provision of an effective comprehensive service. In this role you will lead child protection investigations and assess/support children in need. In so doing, you will act immediately to secure the protection and safety of children including the placement of children in foster care. You should have excellent assessment and prioritisation skills and use these to instigate timely interventions and promote positive outcomes in line with national standards. You will be required to prepare and submit emergency court applications out of hours and represent the Council to ensure the protection and welfare of all children and vulnerable adults., We are dedicated to ensuring that you can progress your continued professional development and access training and learning opportunities linked to the BASW competencies for career progression.
You should be a Qualified Social Worker with a minimum of two years post qualification experience in a Child Protection setting and you will need to have SW England registration., Your aspirations should be limitless and you will be as determined and passionate about Children's Services as we are. As a local authority, we continuously drive forward improvements in our services. We want our Social Workers to be part of our transformation, contribute to improving the safeguarding of our children, and we will make sure you have the full support network and training to do it. Our teams are ambitious and proactive and we are looking for people who will share that ambition and be a part of our journey. Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act - for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
We have now implemented the Family Safeguarding Model in 2022, a new multi-disciplinary approach that supports a whole-system change to child protection for children up to adolescence, focusing on supporting the needs of children and adults so that children can safely remain within their families. This is a great opportunity to join us now and be part of this pioneering work as we continue to learn from multi agency family work and support more families to look after their children in their families and wider communities.
Your next package
* Relocation allowance of up to £8,000 (eligibility criteria applies)
* Competitive salaries
* Free car parking at our central Swindon campus and easy commuter links to many locations
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details. As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance. For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It's why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you'll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We'll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we'll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you'll be proud to say it was made better with you.