Job descriptionSocial work Post
Are you passionate about helping families thrive? At this family assessment centre, we believe every child deserves a safe and nurturing home—and we need a dedicated social worker like you to make that happen.
You’ll work alongside experienced colleagues and leadership to empower parents, strengthen family relationships, and create lasting change. Based in Wirral, is a specialist Parenting Assessment Unit offering a 12–14 week program designed to educate, support, and evidence parents’ ability to improve their care.
Essential Criteria
Qualifications:
· Social work qualification e.g., Degree in Social work; DipSW or equivalent
· Be registered with the Social work England and have evidence of this
· Desirable - valid driving licence and have business insurance
Knowledge and Skills
· Able to demonstrate practice which supports the social care commitments.
· Able to demonstrate organisational skills.
· Able to demonstrate good communication and written skills.
· Able to critical reflect their own practice and an ability to want to learn and improve their own practice.
· Adhere to GDPR compliance and confidentiality.
· Commitment to anti discriminatory practice.
· Able to work with parents and families irrespective of their circumstances and their background.
· Able to work creatively to ensure that the learning style of the parents are the main focus so they are able to understand the needs of their child and to promote their parenting capabilities.
· Able to work with parents with additional learning or disability needs.
· Knowledge of NICE guidelines and babies’ development and milestones.
· Knowledge of basic care and routines for babies and toddlers.
· Ability to utilise Family and children assessment tools to evidence-based sessions and the overall parenting assessment and to support the family support workers in delivering these sessions.
KEY Responsibilities
1. Be the allocated social worker for up to 5 families.
3. To participate in all aspects of performance management and use all relevant learning opportunities to improve skills and knowledge.
4. Maintain accurate and up to date records using the organisations electronic management systems.
5. Oversee the referrals and identity the risks along with the current residents, to ascertain if we can offer a placement.
6. Oversee sessions to educate the parents life skills to improve their parenting skills as highlighted within the weekly reports.
7. Communicate effectively to family support workers the risks of the families.
8. Complete Parenting assessments for at least 2 of the families using the specialist MALD assessment ( training will be provided).
9. Work collaboratively as and when we need to commission a Independent social worker to complete Parenting assessments.
10. Write reports to a high standard for court e.g. position statement, midway reports, weekly reports etc.
11. Quality assure all weekly reports and any reports that are filed with the Local Authority.
12. Analyse case notes and give direction to family support workers and parents.
13. Oversee the keyworkers who obtain parents views of the weekly reports and work closely with the families keyworker.
14. Complete safeguarding forms and inform the Local Authority in a timely manner.
15. Oversee those chronologies of all the families up to date.
16. Oversee the child’s journey throughout their time at PAFA
17. Accurately record and critically analyse information, and communicate to the staff team
18. Confident in interviewing skills with adults and children
19. Experience of working with partner agencies in a professional capacity.
20. Able to assess, Balance the needs and risks with rights and choices, taking account of power differences and promoting positive outcomes for children, and their families.
21. Working with more complex situations, expected to undertake cases independently and demonstrate an ability to adapt the approach accordingly.
22. Ensure a duty of care and the safeguarding of children, young people and their families in ways that balance promotion of wellbeing, independence, choice and control with the need to protect people from abuse and neglect.
23. Demonstrate an ability to organise and prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities within their caseload
24. Exercise high quality judgements, in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge.
25. Provide an oversight of cases and give clear directions and supportive actions within appropriate timescales to members of staff within the team, the independent visitor Reg 25 and Ofsted.
26. Be part of the on call duty rota to support staff as and when required during your duty week.
Desirable criteria
Knowledge of Quality Assurance systems, Performance Management and Health and Safety
A strong ability to work part of a team as well as being able to work independently using your own initiative.
Qualifications
· Relevant post -qualifying/ vocational training courses
Knowledge and skills
· Demonstrate appropriate IT skills, use of Microsoft Office, Excel etc
The job role holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties commensurate with the job role descriptor grade as directed by the manager.
Salary will be discussed depending on the individuals skills and experience.
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Salary is dependant on experience, this will be discussed at the interview. Range from £32,000 - £42,000
Mon – Fri
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract 12 month contract
Benefits:
Company pension
Discounted or free food
Flexitime
Free parking
Health & wellbeing programme
On-site parking
Referral programme
Work from home
Experience:
social work: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
Social work England (required)
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