Social Worker - Safeguarding & Family Supprt

Posted 09 January 2025
Salary Up to £33.30 per hour
LocationTelford
Job type Temporary
Discipline Social Work
Reference21436
ContactTerena Liddon

Job description

Opus people solutions on behalf of Cambridge County Council have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join their Safeguarding Team.

Job Title: Social Worker - Safeguarding & Family Support
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: £33.30
Location:Darby House
Remote/Office based: Hybrid

  • Manage a caseload with various levels of complexity.
  • In doing so the postholder will lead on complex assessments and provide evidence as necessary in court proceedings.
  • To practice effectively, exercising high quality judgements in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge in Children's Services, acting with confidence and considerable autonomy
  • Ability to assess situations effectively, determine which interventions, knowledge and skills should be deployed, and ability to anticipate the possible progress of issues and options without pre-judging.
  • To integrate professional knowledge, the views of people using services and research/evaluation evidence into practice.
  • Ability to use knowledge and skills to take more initiative and continue to broaden and deepen a broad repertoire of responses.
  • To have expertise in one or more areas of practice, be familiar with and linked in to local and national resource networks.

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.