YOUR ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Put children at the heart of everything you do.
• Work with and support vulnerable children and families to ensure best outcomes can be achieved, helping them to implement sustainable family-led plans.
• Use motivational interviewing and ensure that practice is strengths based
• Build and maintain close working relationships with partners
• Maintain up to date, detailed and accurate records
• Embrace opportunities to learn, grow and develop your Social Work career.
• Support team managers with the operational delivery of services and support the transformation of children’s services across Bury.
• Be confident and knowledgeable in children’s social work practice, family law and statutory processes and able to share your knowledge to support your team.
• Provide supervision to ASYE colleagues, ensure high quality practice through practice observations and reflective conversations to ensure our Family Safeguarding Model and MI is fully embedded.
• Role model a “think family” approach, building and developing strong relationships with other teams and key partners.
• Exemplify the highest quality social work practice, demonstrating effective care planning, high quality consistent record keeping, strong management oversight and decision making, and permanence considered at the earliest opportunity.
• Deputise for the Team Manager and be accountable and contribute to panels and meetings as required.