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Advanced Practitioner - Children In Care Team, Barnsley
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Location: Barnsley, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 13aa48593ec8
Job Views: 64
Posted: 22.01.2025
Expiry Date: 08.03.2025
Job Description:
Are you an experienced advanced practitioner? Do you have a passion to make improvements to a child's life? Barnsley Council are looking to recruit an advanced practitioner social worker to support their Children in Care team which has an adoption & permanence focus. The contract will be for an initial 3-6 months with potential for extension subject to internal circumstance and performance. Hybrid working is also available.
Competitive rate of £40 per hour available.
Responsibilities:
1. Assess, plan, review and provide support to a child, family or carer with complex family or social care needs, taking full account of appropriate legal frameworks, policy, and guidance.
2. Work collaboratively, building effective working relationships with other professionals, internally and externally.
3. Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
4. Arrange appropriate alternative care (including, where appropriate a permanent home) in collaboration with children, young people, and their parents/carers where the parents/carers cannot care for them.
5. Maintain up to date, accurate and high-quality records of activity on cases.
6. Participate in a range of planning and decision-making forums including case discussions, Strategy Meetings, Legal Planning meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Statutory Reviews.
7. Write court reports and give evidence in relation to children at risk during legal proceedings.
Minimum Requirements:
* SWE Registration
* 2 years post-qualifying experience within the UK
* Eligibility to work in the UK
Benefits of working with Randstad:
* £300 referral scheme
* Dedicated consultant
* Access to a variety of Social Care jobs Nationwide
* DBS and Compliance Service
* Quick and Easy Registration Process
* Access to CPD
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
Experience: Children services
Skills: Caring, competent at dealing with all stakeholders
Qualifications: University
Education: BA in social work
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