Social Worker – Bromley Jobs Manchester

Overview

Position Title: Social Worker

Company:  London Borough of Bromley

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description

Services for children and families in Bromley have made a remarkable leap forward to ‘good’ overall with leadership that has an ‘outstanding’ impact on social work practice, according to Ofsted. We are proud of the findings and letter from Ofsted from our recent Focused Visit on the care and support we offer to our children looked after. You can view the letter from Ofsted here.

Responsibilities:

• Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies.
• This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people. To read more about our REAL Values and Behaviours, please click here: Values and Behaviours.pdfThis role is within the Referral and Assessment Service.
• The Referral and Assessment Teams receive all new referrals from the Bromley MASH and undertake Child and Family assessments to determine how best children’s needs can be met.
• There are 6 teams, each consisting of a team manager and 5 social workers.
• The teams go onto duty for one week every 6 weeks and during their duty week, social workers will receive new allocations.Bromley has made a huge investment in terms of staffing in order to ensure that social workers have lower caseloads.
• Referral and Assessment Social Workers will carry an average of 8 families. Social workers in the service are positive, motivated and feel that their current caseload allows them complete good social work interventions with families.

Requirements:

• As part of the Bromley Promise there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us.
• You will be working within smaller teams comprising of just five Social Workers/Senior Social Workers and one Team Manager. Our managers are accessible, ensuring you have support when needed. You will have dedicated time set aside for quality and reflective 1-1 supervision with your manager.