Social Worker - Safeguarding - Tameside - £39 per hour
Social Worker - Safeguarding - Tameside - £39 per hour
Caritas are currently recruiting a Social Worker to join the safeguarding Team based in Tameside.
You will be based within a School setting, supporting designated safeguarding leads, and educational and pastoral colleagues in safeguarding children and young people.
This is an innovative programme partnering closely with schools, it will offer skilled Social Workers the opportunity to gain valuable and unique experience and skills and work in a role which will shape future services and make a real impact on the lives of young people and families across the town.
Benefits as a Safeguarding Social Worker are:
- Long contracts will run until October 2026
- Unusual new pilot scheme
- Inclusive of agency roles
- Equipment provided
Duties as a Safeguarding Social Worker are:
- Able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative, and relationship-based social work and demonstrate your ability to lead a skilled workforce.
- Present a 'can-do' attitude; we want people who will help us to build a real culture of reflection and learning. We want team players!
- Develop and implement plans to meet the assessed needs of children and their families/carers and to undertake the role of key worker.
- Ensure that professional standards and practice are maintained and that responsibility for practice and decision making is undertaken commensurate with the level of experience, knowledge, and grade.
- Be able to recognise safeguarding vulnerable people situations and report through agreed processes to enable appropriate action to be taken.
- Undertake child protection investigations, court work and complex cases.
Essential requirements as a Safeguarding Social Worker are:
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
If you're interested please apply or contact Usman at Caritas Recruitment
Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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