Senior Social Worker, Cyprus
Senior Social Worker, British Forces Social Work Service, Relocation to Cyprus (BFSWS)
Salary: £36,750/ €42,255.15 plus 15% on-call paymentsSpecific Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Full time, permanent
Location: British Forces Cyprus (BFC)
Base Location: Dhekelia, Cyprus
Reporting to: Head of Service/ Team Manager, British Forces Social Work Service, Cyprus (BFSWS)
Benefits: 24 Days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays as normally observed in Cyprus, Life Insurance x 2, Employee Discount Scheme
About Us:
Polaris Children's Services is part of the Polaris Community of companies and delivers statutory and non-statutory social care services in the UK and to military communities overseas.
Since 2014 we have provided Social Work services to the Ministry of Defence in British Forces Germany, and in November 2019 expanded our overseas work with the British military, associated civilian personnel, and their families across Europe, Canada, Kenya, Belize, the United States of America and Saudi Arabia.
From 1st July 2020 we expanded our services further to include The South Atlantic Islands and Cyprus.
On 1st April 2021 included British military communities in Singapore, British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT) and Gibraltar.
From 1st May 2022 the service expanded to include British military communities in Brunei and Nepal.
While all services are under the management of Polaris Children's Services we are proud to have developed our own BFSWS brand with specific identities for each community of military social work service. As such we have a new opportunity in the Polaris Children Services, British Forces Social Work team in Cyprus for a Senior Social Worker to join our team.
Responsibilities- Generic Social Work
- Carrying out CIN assessments and plans
- Undertaking Section 47 type enquiries
- Carrying a caseload of CiN and those subject to Child Protection plans.
- Participation in a 'front door- duty desk' rota (approx. 1 in 4 weeks)
- Participation in an 'out of hours' rota(approx. 1 in 6 weeks)
- Direct work with children and young people
- Young carer and foster carer assessments
- Safeguarding assessment of 'adults at risk'
- Delivery of multi-agency safeguarding training
- Multi agency partnership working
- Attendance at Command welfare and safeguarding meetings
- A Professional Social Work qualification (BA (Hons), DIP SW, CQSW, CSS)/ equivalent and must be registered with Social Work England or equivalent.
- Successful completion of a Post Qualifying Award in Social Work
- 3 years post qualification experience working as a qualified and registered Social Worker within a children and families team.
- Experience in a broad range of social work roles as well as complex children and family assessment / case management
- Computer literacy skills
- Experience of report writing and a good command of the English language
- A comprehensive working knowledge of relevant legislation and child /adult safeguarding procedures
- The willingness and ability to work flexibly, including travel across Cyprus and the UK. This may include some weekend and evening working.
- Full driving licence for manual cars
- Participate in the Out of Hours duty management rota - essential.
- The successful candidate if recruited from the UK will be supported to attain the legal right to reside and work in British Forces, Cyprus. Other benefits such as accommodation, education, health support and moving costs is negotiated and confirmed during 'on boarding' process.
- If recruited from within Cyprus it is expected you already have the right to residence (MEU1 or MEU3) and work permits are already in hand.
Polaris Children's Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.