Job Category : Social Care - Qualified
Location : County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AE, North Yorkshire Council
hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :16:30
End Time : 23:00
Salary: £40.00
The Emergency Duty Team (EDT) is a vital service which provides out of hours cover for North Yorkshire Council and the City of York and is based in County Hall, Northallerton, although the service operates on a countywide basis.
The principle responsibility of EDT is to respond to out of hours requests where intervention from the Local Authority is required to safeguard a vulnerable child or adult until the next working day.
As a qualified and registered Social Worker you will have a broad and detailed knowledge of statutory functions of Social Care and Health Services. You will be dealing with complex cases that require thorough and robust risk decision making. You will have proven experience in Social Work in one or more areas of practice, including children, adults and families.
We start work at 4.30pm Monday to Friday through until 8:30am the next working day. At weekends and Bank Holidays we cover the 24 hour day with a rota that requires various shift patterns.
Northallerton benefits from easy connectivity to the surrounding areas of York, Leeds and Teesside via a series of rail and road links, such as the A1 and A19, as well as being easily accessible to other towns and villages within North Yorkshire.
The base is County Hall, the role is hybrid however candidates will be required to travel throughout North Yorkshire and York.
Hours available are variable and up to full time. Shifts will be provided for the next 8 weeks.
The nature of the work is that out of hours shifts may produce varying working hours and we can support flexible arrangements around this.
Essential upon appointment
Knowledge
• Knowledge and experience of good practice standards in relation to children, adults and families at a local level
• Knowledge of the legal framework for working with children, adults and families.
• Understand the role and value of families and carers as partners in supporting their children and adults to achieve positive outcomes.
Experience
• Substantial post-qualifying experience within a relevant professional field.
• Substantial case management experience of cases with complex, professional and ethical issues; which may include including adult and/or child protection, court proceedings, case conferences and other formal processes.
• Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary working; which may include with children in need, looked after children, child protection, safeguarding adults and mental health.
Occupational Skills
• Ability to deliver all aspects of children and adults work, including mental health, adult safeguarding and child protection.
• Developed practice skills for this client group, including the ability to engage and communicate with children, young people, adults and families, and with a range of other stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare written assessments, reports and service plans to a high professional standard.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workloads effectively and to meet necessary timescales.
• Ability to meet targets and manage own performance across a broad multi-disciplinary range.
• Ability to deliver services and practices to agreed standards are maintained.
• Support and challenge partners and other professional staff to ensure service and practices are delivered to the appropriate standards.
• Ability to present, explain and negotiate the services’ activities and objectives in a wide range of contexts.
• Competent in word processing, creating and manipulating spreadsheets, data inputting, accessing information from databases and electronic communication. Expert skills with electronic case recording systems.
• Customer-facing role requiring the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post
Professional Qualifications/Training/Registrations required by law, and/or essential for the performance of the role
• Fully qualified, accredited social work professional status (CQSW, DipSW, CSS, PQCCA, AMHP)
• Current registration with HCPC
• Supervision for managers’ module
• Evidence of further progress in PQ development