Qualified Social Worker
Are you an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated Children's Social Worker?
Yes?
Randstad is recruiting for a Qualified Social Worker to join Tameside Local Authority's Early Help Team. This is a full-time role with a fantastic pay rate of £37 per hour.
Benefits:
- Hybrid working
- Mileage reimbursement
- Supervision
- Competitive rates of pay
- Weekly pay
- One committed and dedicated point of contact
- Unlimited referrals incentive: £300 voucher for each referral (T&Cs apply)
- Free training programs
- Access to 100s of discounts through the Hapi App
- Free health-care and financial advice via the Hapi App
Responsibilities:
- Support the leadership and management team
- Provide oversight for Early Help referrals received through the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and the Team Around the Setting (TAS)
- Make decisions based on the Tameside Threshold of Need document
- Offer management oversight and case direction to Early Help Advisers, and allocate cases
- Ensure decision-making supports positive outcomes for children, young people, and families
- Professionally challenge where required to ensure effective support is delivered
- Supervise Early Help Advisers and manage their caseloads, ensuring adherence to timescales and performance indicators
- Quality assure decisions made by Early Help Advisers in line with thresholds
- Identify trends, conduct audits, and collect data to enhance service development and training needs
- Work closely with partner agencies (schools, health, social care, police, voluntary sector)
- Support step up/step down processes with Targeted Family Help to ensure appropriate services are in place
- Contribute to the continued development of the Early Help service
Requirements:
- Social Work Degree or equivalent
- Social Work England registration
- Enhanced DBS
Experience:
- Children's social work
If you have any further questions, or wish to apply for this role, please contact Cameron on , or Apply Below, and I will be in touch soon.
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.
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