Social Worker - Family Safeguarding

Opus people solutions on behalf of Telford And Wrekin Council have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to their Family Safeguarding Team

Job Title: Social Worker - Family Safeguarding
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: £33.30ph
Location: Darby House, 1st Floor, Wing B, Lawn Central, Telford, TF3 4JA
Remote/Office based: Hybrid, 2 days in the office

• Manage a caseload with various levels of complexity. In doing so the postholder will lead on complex assessments and provide evidence as necessary in court proceedings.
• To practice effectively, exercising high quality judgements in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge in Children’s Services, acting with confidence and considerable autonomy
• Ability to assess situations effectively, determine which interventions, knowledge and skills should be deployed, and ability to anticipate the possible progress of issues and options without pre-judging.
• To integrate professional knowledge, the views of people using services and research/evaluation evidence into practice.
• Ability to use knowledge and skills to take more initiative and continue to broaden and deepen a broad repertoire of responses.

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.