Children’s Social Worker – 0-18 Children with Disabilities Team

at  South Gloucestershire Council

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Our social workers make a real difference. Every day they work with families to help children and young people who have a significant disability or impairment and have difficulty achieving their ambitions.

• Listening to children and young people with a disability and putting them at the heart of all that we do.
• Working in partnership with families, equipping them with the skills they need to ensure young people live in happy, healthy and safe homes.
• Working within a multi-agency network to ensure that assessment and planning is well coordinated and leads to positive outcomes for the child.

We are pleased to say that we provide an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ service, our Ofsted report can be viewed here; we are seeking additional driven professionals to help us to collectively maintain and build on this for the ongoing betterment of the children and young people of South Gloucestershire.
Although this post is advertised as a full time position, we encourage and welcome applications from experienced social workers who may be seeking part time, job share or flexible working arrangements.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• You will have experience of court work, as candidates will need, or be willing to develop experience and skills to assess a persons capacity and authorise any deprivation of liberty before the courts
• You will be a qualified social worker with relevant Social Work England registration to practice and a good understanding of asset and strengths based approaches to social work.
• You will evidence that you are a problem solver, confident about making important decisions, underpinned by a genuine passion to work collaboratively with children, young people and families to meet their goals and aspirations.
• You will be an advocate for innovation, positivity and dedication. You’ll welcome challenge and embrace change.
• You will demonstrate specialist knowledge of the relevant services, including latest service developments, legislation, regulations and codes of practice.

• We have a strong culture of giving staff the time, freedom and support to explore new and better ways of doing things, so we’re looking for individuals keen to use their creativity to deliver high quality, child-centred practices, which ensure the best outcomes for children and families.
• The 0-18 Children with Disabilities social care team within the 0-25 service has several functions, one of which is to provide information, advice and support to children, young people, their families and carers to enable children with disabilities to enjoy and achieve social inclusion. The team has a duty to safeguard vulnerable children and young people and to assess need, develop plans and provide services where appropriate. We will then review these plans regularly to ensure that outcomes are being achieved.
• The 0-18 Children with Disabilities social care team undertakes statutory social work in the areas of Child protection, Children in Need and the initial stages of Looked after Children, as well as working within the Public Law outline and Care proceedings on occasion. You will ensure vulnerable children and young people with a significant impairment or disability are identified, protected and supported to achieve positive outcomes through the provision of well planned, integrated and coordinated services.