Remedy Recruitment Group is working in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council to recruit an experienced Qualified Social Worker for the Children with Disabilities Team. 

 

This is a locum position to start immediately for 3 months. 

 

Responsibilities:

• 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

• Assess family functioning, providing help and support, when relationship breakdown threatens to impair the health or well-being of children at risk of abuse or neglect

• Carry out an assessment or enquiry and plan responses to safeguard a child from abuse, neglect or exploitation, building effective relationships with children, adults and families as appropriate, including intervention when information or circumstances suggest there may be a need to remove a child from their parents or carers

• 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

• Promoting autonomy and development with individuals who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity, for example, working with people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities or diminished capacity

• Carry out age and human rights assessments as appropriate

• Write court reports and give evidence in relation to children at risk during legal proceedings

• Assess people's suitability as foster carers, kinship carers (including Special Guardians), or adopters

• Hold a caseload of a level of complexity and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students and newly qualified social workers, as and when required

 

Essential requirements:

• DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent.

• Experience in undertaking assessments and the ability to demonstrate how these are used in forming appropriate care plans for children with disabilities. 

• Recent experience of communicating with young people with disabilities and/or additional needs and working in partnership with parents and/or carers. 

• Car driver/owner.

 

Remedy Social Care is a REC Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour or nationality.