Consultant Social worker - MASH - Stoke - £38p/h

Tripod wishes to speak to Qualified Social workers with MASH / Early Help experience

£38p/h

Stoke

ASYE + at least 3 years experience plus additional supervisory/practice development role/contributing to learning of others

Thought you might like some information regarding the team the post is in

• Stoke on Trent has been voted as one of the friendliest places in the UK We are a very small geographical area and cover locality basis therefore travelling between visits, once in Stoke is extremely limited in terms of mileage
• Opportunities to become a 'champion’ in various different areas of practice and development
• Secured funding for 'family hubs’ and have been rolling these out across the city creating a fantastic early help offer including parenting programmes, confidence building courses, adult learning offer, food banks and charitable support plus much more
• We have a strong management team and also senior managers who are very supported
• Free parking via our critical user parking permit for various car parks across the city, including parking on the multi-deck car park next to the office

CHAD - manage Police triage notifications after a change in policy by National Police Federation and our local police

• This worker with follow the flowchart of the triage of the PPN referrals received at the front door.
• They will work in partnership with Staffordshire Police where rigour will be applied to ensure that there is effective signposting for these referrals.
• The aim will always be to ensure that wherever possible any support the family require will be triaged to levels 1 and 2 to avoid statutory the need for statutory intervention
• In terms of management team - supervision is completed with social workers every 4 weeks (both case supervision and personal supervision), this is completed 1-1 by the team manager.
• In addition to that, we have team meetings at least once per fortnight and group supervision, guest speakers and peer review is part of these meetings on rotation.
• We also have full service meetings, learning sessions and team away days throughout the year.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fees

If this is something you are suited for, please apply with your CV and contact details - Lee Vincent