Family Support & Protection Team – Essex County Council - £35ph
* Position: Qualified Social Worker – Family Support & Protection
* Location: Chelmsford, Mid Essex
* Salary: £35ph
* Contract Type: Full-Time and ongoing contract
About the Role
Children and Families is recognized as a service in which social work can develop and prosper, with a culture of collaboration, integrity, and compassion; promoting development and wellbeing of children, young people, and their families; protecting them from neglect and abuse. Working together with partners delivering a range of early help, family support, and effective social work interventions which build resilience, remove barriers, and enable children and young people to look forward to a brighter future.
Key Responsibilities:
* Assess complex social care needs and provide support to children and families.
* Develop support plans that gain commitment to solutions that enable the child, young person, and family to build resilience and look forward to a brighter future.
* Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy, and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached.
* Work collaboratively, building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships and stakeholders and the voluntary sector, to assist children and their families and carers in gaining support.
* Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a child or young person and promote their welfare, including appropriate intervention as determined by need.
* Develop a child-centered approach which enables early intervention and prevention and increases independence.
* Proactively influence in a range of inter-agency planning, decision-making, and case discussions.
* Communicate assessments and professional judgments clearly and succinctly both orally and in writing, including report writing and court statements.
* Work with families, communities, and individuals to help people get the best start in life and age well, supporting strategic aims.
* Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
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