Social Work Assistant (Fostering) - Birmingham
Neway International Ltd Birmingham
Neway is looking for a Social Work Assistant to join the Kinship Assessment Team based with Birmingham Children's Trust.
This role is starting asap, working full time in an ongoing contract.
This is a Social Work Assistant role based in one of the three Kinship Assessment Teams. Our specialist assessment teams are responsible for assessing relatives or friends to care for children & young people, when their own parents are not able to.
As a Social Work Assistant in the service, you will be responsible for supporting the work completed within your social work team; which will include:- Contacting potential Connected Persons Foster Carers / Special Guardians to introduce yourself/the service and talk through the stage one checks & references required as part of the full Form C (Coram BAAF) assessment.
- Being confident in using electronic systems (CHARMS, Eclipse, spreadsheets etc) to keep records up to date and be able to communicate with people using a variety of different methods.
- Working alongside and communicating effectively with Social Workers and other professionals across the Trust including child care social workers, legal representatives, GP’s and the medical advisor.
- To meet with potential applicants and help them complete paperwork, check ID for the purposes of DBS checks and to ensure people have the correct paperwork and understand the process for requesting a full adult medical with their GP.
- To support social workers within the service to complete the full Form C (Coram BAAF) assessment; this may include completing one to one sessions with applicants, or supporting with other documentation (i.e.
health & safety checklist, safer care agreement, chronologies etc).
You will also have strong administration and IT skills, as your time will be split between office-based tasks and work in the community, visiting families.Key effective communication and positive relationship skills are essential, as well as clear, concise record keeping, in a timely, accurate manner, applying your time management and organisational skills.
The ability to work effectively with colleagues and other agencies; solve problems, negotiate and make decisions are also a necessity to be able to support the social work team.
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