Social Worker - SafeCORE

at  Royal Borough of Greenwich

SAFECORE - CHILDREN’S SOCIAL WORKER

• £42,840 to £52,116 pa – dependant on experience
• Permanent full-time post
  Royal Borough of Greenwich Children’s Social Care Service is looking to recruit an experienced social worker to our SafeCORE service.
  You will need to be a qualified social worker with experience of working with Children and Families and of delivering evidence-based individual and group interventions from the perspective of a systemic and compassionate practice framework, as well as experience of working with children, young people and/or adults with a specific focus on issues related to domestic violence and family conflict.
  The SafeCORE service:
  SafeCORE is a whole family approach to address the ‘stop/start response’ by children’s social care to domestic violence and abuse and to family conflict in general. The Service supports families to create better environments for children; increasing positive experiences and decreasing incidents of violence in order to prevent children’s needs escalating and mitigate against them re-entering the Children’s Social Care system at a later stage with more severe needs. SafeCORE applies the Science of Compassion to a child and family context, combining it with family led systemic concepts, relational approaches and practical support in order to engage families to address the causal factors of domestic violence and abuse.
  SafeCORE has adopted a unit model; the team includes practice leads, social workers, adult practitioners, family support workers and one coordinator. The team comes together for weekly unit meetings where the focus is on developing and promoting support and interventions for the families. The service is supported by a clinician in regular unit meetings and ad hoc case discussions.
  Purpose of Job:
  To work closely with families who are affected by situational couple violence and child to parent conflict and to improve outcomes through the use of evidence based practice which is grounded in the principles of, professional curiosity, anti-oppressive practice, compassion, tenacity and systemic ideas.
  The role will involve direct work with families including early intervention and preventative work in order to facilitate these families to make sustainable changes and reduce the need for on-going statutory intervention.
  To be responsible to SafeCORE Practice Lead

Please refer the Job description for details