Social Worker – First Response

Job title:

Social Worker – First Response

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobSocial Worker – First ResponseClosing in 20 days (8 January, 2025)Salary £36,124 to £40,476 per annum
Department Social Care
Working pattern Full Time
Location Bridgwater
Closing date 8 January, 2025About the jobThe Family Front Door Social Work team is a fast paced and exciting team ensuring that the children and families that we work with are assessed promptly and receive the right service at the first time.

• A commitment to your CPD through a bespoke learning and development programme.
• Permanent role
• 30 days annual leave entitlement

As part of your role as a Social Worker within the Family Front Door you will respond to queries and referrals regarding children aged 0-18 years.
You will be expected to liaise with members of the public and professionals over the telephone in order to gather and assess information to determine what level of intervention is required. You will work on a rota system within the team, which allows for variation and development of skills including duty, consultation, friends and family advisor.
You will be working closely with the Assessment Teams, and participating in strategy meetings to ensure children and families are effectively transferred with appropriate risk assessments, priority status and initial recommendations.
The role will include partnership engagement. It is vital that this is maintained and opportunities are available for social workers to attend multi agency meetings to support with training and risk management meetings.You will be educated to degree level, in a recognised Social Work qualification (DipSW or equivalent) with Social Work England registration. It is desirable that you will have demonstrable experience in assessment work with children and families and will have a natural enthusiasm to maintaining and expanding your social work knowledge and skills.We recognise the need for continuing professional development and support social workers with developing their skills and career progression. There are regular CPD sessions held internally which are contributed to by social workers and also external agencies. There are opportunities to work alongside our local Assessment Teams and Emergency Duty Team.We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.
• Optional pension enhancement through our additional voluntary contribution scheme
• Discounted lease car options via salary sacrifice, along with discounts on fuel

Feel free to contact Emily Harding-Moody on 01278 454067 for an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity.Due to the importance of the role we recommend applying as soon as possible as we anticipate conducting interviews ahead of the closing date.Interviews will be held in person at Bridgwater Police Station Express Park. 16 January 2025.The salary range for this role is £36,124 to £40,476 per annum.We are the Front Door Service for Somerset Children’s Social Care (CSC) in Somerset. It consists of a team of advisers (Somerset Direct), social workers, team managers and overseen by an operations manager. We are based in the Bridgwater police station.
The team is co-located with partner agencies and contribute to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) meetings. The Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) has been set up to improve the way that local safeguarding partnerships respond to child protection referrals, in order to share information quickly and efficiently ensuring the safest and timely outcomes for children.This job requires a criminal background check (DBS) via the disclosure procedure.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£36124 – 40476 per year

Location

Bridgwater, Somerset

Job date

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:16:24 GMT

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