Social Work Assistant - Leicester
| Job Title: | Social Work Assistant - Leicester |
| Contract Type: | Temporary |
| Location: | East Midlands |
| Industry: | |
| REF: | 1146972 |
| Job Published: | 2 days ago |
Job Description
Leicester
17/02/2025 – 3 months initially
Monday to Thursday 8.30-17.00, Friday 8.30-16.30, 37 hrs/week – Office based
- Provide First Response Screening, handling safeguarding concerns, assessing risk and sharing information when people report abuse or neglect
- Handling telephone calls and emails in relation to Children’s Social Care as well as urgent referrals to the police
- Aim help to stop abuse, keep vulnerable children safe and assist families to receive support timely
- Provide telephone advice and support to families such as directing families to self-help resources, identify where the needs are greater than can be met by advice only and escalate appropriately to a Social Worker/Team Manager, take phone messages and updates for Social Workers
- Assisting social workers
- Working with professionals from children’s social care, targeted family help, the police, health and other agencies
- You will be supervised by qualified social work staff monthly, and be part of a social work POD, benefiting from reflective and developmental, monthly POD meetings
- Experience of working in Children’s Services and Customer Services
- Strong ICT skills, ideally with experience of using Mosaic
- Excellent communication skills and innate sense of curiosity to ask questions sensitively of professionals and members of the public calling in
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment, working well under pressure both individually and as part of a team and to work to tight timescales
- Child and Adult DBS registered to the update service
Please email all CVs to Sammy Davis or call 02085149110 mobile 07570 819 831
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