Assessment Team

Job Title: Social Worker - Children's Assessment Team

About Middlesbrough Borough Council Children's Social Care:

Middlesbrough Children's Services has been actively working to improve and has shown steady improvements, as evidenced in Ofsted monitoring visits. We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and dynamic Social Workers to join our Safeguarding and Care Planning Service. Middlesbrough now has both a committed and permanent Senior Leadership Team and Senior Management Team in place, driving improvement and supporting staff within a culture of development and growth.

About the Assessment Teams:

Middlesbrough has 5 Assessment Teams. Our Assessment Teams work with children, young people, and their families where referrals into children's social care have identified a need for Level 4 support. Each team has a duty cycle of 1 week and is allocated oversight of their children and families within this cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete S47 visits to children following strategies.
• Progress children's planning to Initial Child Protection Conferences and Public Law Outline where required prior to transfer to the SCP teams.
• Undertake some initial court work, though minimal as involvement transfers to the SCP teams at the first hearing.
• Work directly with children and young people to understand their lived daily experiences.
• Work collaboratively with children, young people, their families, and agency professionals to produce robust and meaningful assessments of needs.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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