Looked After Child Social Worker - 22.2 Hours- 9 Months

at  Leicester City Council

LOOKED AFTER CHILD SOCIAL WORKER - 22.2 HOURS- 9 MONTHS

Job description
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Parental Leave cover 6 -12 Months
This is an great time to be part of Leicester City’s ever-improving service ensuring children are at the heart of our work and to practice great Social Work. To help deliver our vision we are looking for an experienced social worker to join one of our teams who is enthusiastic, passionate and has a strong track record of working with children, young people and their families to achieve positive outcomes. You’ll play a key role in improving the life for families and children in Leicester.
We are leaders Signs of Safety as a model of intervention to support sound Social Work practice. In terms of developing practice and learning, you’ll have the opportunity to participate and take part in group supervision and mapping sessions on casework.
As part of our commitment to ensuring you achieve your full professional capabilities, you’ll benefit from furthering your skills and knowledge through appropriate courses. At Leicester City Council we are committed to supporting your continual professional development and do this in a variety of ways.
We offer agile and flexible working that supports a healthy work life balance. You’ll have the ability to work outside normal office hours and visit locations across the city.

As a Level 3 Social Worker you will be working to achieve good outcomes for children in care aged 0-18 years old, supporting robust care planning and pathway planning and delivering on the statutory requirements for our looked after children. You will be supporting children and young people in foster care, residential care and supported living arrangements. We have a growing group of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people. Building strong relationships and enabling their voices to be heard will be key. We have a strong drive to support reunification plans to parents care where appropriate, and enable care arrangements to move towards special guardianship care arrangements if this is the right plan for them. The social work you will do is diverse and rewarding making a difference to the lives of our looked after children and young people. You will have the advantages of working with an experienced and established team who will share their practice wisdom and experiences.