Senior Social Worker (Project )

• To provide outstanding services to children in need or at risk of harm and their families living in Norfolk, to bring about life long change and improved outcomes.
• To ensure children and young people are adequately protected in line with the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and departmental policy and procedures and relevant legislation.
• To deliver high quality social work practice and utilise specialist knowledge to carry out in depth family assessment of social need and risk to children. To hold a caseload of the most complex cases.
• To lead child centred assessments using professional curiosity, which involve key family members, professionals and consider each child’s identity, experiences, and social circumstances.
• To lead and develop child centred plans with children, their families and key professionals which will manage the identified risks and meet the child’s needs.
• To review the effectiveness of each plan in a timely way to ensure that interventions bring about positive long term change for children and their families.
• To build effective relationships with children and their families which form the bedrock of all support and child protection responses, securing the best outcomes for children and young people.
• To strengthen the relationships between children, young people and families wherever possible and appropriate.
• To lead in complex situations and provide professional support to staff through guidance, co-working, mentoring, and modelling outstanding practice.
• To champion, promote and share the highest professional standards, providing social work professional consultation to Children’s Services teams and other agencies.
• To maintain personal and professional credibility through effective working relationships with peers, managers and leaders both within and outside of the profession and organisation.
• To lead practice development within the team to improve and maintain professional standards.
• To contribute to the organisations roles as a corporate parent to children looked after away from home.
• Encouraging and advocating, to support children and young people to thrive and enjoy their childhood and move into independence with confidence and ambition for their futures.

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