Your new companyCoventry City Council are urgently looking to recruit a highly passionate and experienced Senior Social Worker to join the Help and Protection Teams in South and Central Coventry.
Your new roleHelp and Protection Team service reflects and responds to the changing needs of children and their families. It works to enable a reflective and flexible approach, with a strong Early Help offer and a real focus on Relationship Based Practice and Signs of Safety, which focusses on intervention and keeping families together.You will be delivering on the ground social care to support families across Coventry to devise and implement care plans to ensure children can live at home safely, and support where they can't.You will work closely with professionals from a range of agencies including health, education and social care, police and youth offending services, in order to improve lived experiences for children.You will be handling complex but manageable caseloads whilst helping us deliver a strategy that puts children and young people at the beginning, middle and end of everything we do, with all the support and resources you need to do it. Responding to new referrals from MASH and managing a caseload of Child in Need, Child Protection and PLO. This role will pay up to £33.30 per hour depending on experience and a 3-month rolling contract. JD is available upon request. Driving required
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