Remedy Recruitment Group are looking for a Qualified/Senior Social Worker for a Looked After Children Team for Surrey County Council.

Job Purpose

- management of triage of contacts to the service to ascertain whether contacts from families, members of the community and partner organisations meet the threshold for a statutory social work assessment of significant impairment of a child's health/development or significant harm, with appropriate information from referrers and the consent of the family (except when over-ridden by a team manager to protect a child from further significant harm);

-to provide an assessment of the needs of family members, their strengths and any risks to children's health/development or significant harm to the child/ren and develop SMART plans that will meet the needs of family members and reduce risks to children, in conjunction with children and their families and in the most complex cases -to work with partners to meet those needs and monitor progress via child in need and core group meetings involving families, young people and relevant professionals

-to chair reviews of children in need cases, strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings and professional's meetings on complex cases