What's involved with this role:
Title: Temporary Social Work Assistant – Children in Care
Job Ref: Durham TCL 1004775515052248
Pay Rate: £12.18 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, hours tba but could include working after 5pm
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: PITY ME, Durham
Enhanced DBS required for this role
A Social Work Assistant is required to join the Children in Care team. The role will be centred around supervising family time with young people and supporting Social Workers where possible, for example being a second person for a home visit, completing life story work, providing parental advice/guidance, supporting placement stability etc. Candidate's must be extremely organised, child centred and able to supervise and arrange family time.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide or arrange transport to children and young people where required.
Compile Life Story books for children and young people and complete direct work with children, young people and their families and carers to inform Life Story Work.
Provide support to the Social Work Team.
Provide support to the children, young people and their families/ carers where required.
Work after 5pm some evenings to cover family time after school for an hour.
Qualifications:
Level 2 qualification (e.g. NVQ2) in health and social care or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
Experience:
Significant experience of working in a health or social care environment, providing advice and supporting adults with care and support needs with a wide range of needs including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, long term conditions and dementia.
Demonstrable experience in developing and reviewing support plans.
Detailed knowledge and understanding of community resources and how to access these.
Working knowledge of IT packages such as Microsoft Office.
Skills:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Extremely organised and able to work in a busy environment.
Ability to liaise effectively and build productive working relationships with other agencies and providers.
Good IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
Flexible and able to supervise family time for children after school hours.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Durham TCL 1004775515052248
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