Qualified Social Worker, Adoption Team

Qualified Social Worker, Adoption Team, North London – pay rates form £33.6Ltd per hour

Remedy Recruitment Group is working in partnership with a local authority based in North London to recruit a Qualified Social Worker to work in the Adoption Service. This is a locum position to start immediately.
You will need to have experience of undertaking family finding and providing support to adopters with children in placement along with a focus on special guardianship.

Responsibilities:
• Ability to undertake high quality assessments and provide clear analysis, within prescribed timescales.
• To be able to present, orally and in writing, this information within the context of meetings and in court where applicable.
• Ability to contribute to achieving performance targets.
• A thorough knowledge of and the ability to
• Knowledge and understanding of the placement needs of children, child protection and of child development.
• Ability to undertake recruitment, assessment, training and support of adopters and permanent carers.
• Ability to work under pressure to produce high quality reports within tight timescales, as directed by Court or requested otherwise
• Skills in assessing the support needs of children and their permanent families and planning packages of support which meet these needs effectively and within budget.
• Ability to effectively manage and prioritise a workload, to make use of supervision and take responsibility for your continuous professional development.

Essential requirements:
• Social Work qualification and HCPC registration
• Substantial post-qualifying experience in child care social work, including direct experience of adoption work
• Experience should include working directly with children and young people and their families from a linguistically, racially and culturally diverse community in the statutory or voluntary sector
• Knowledge and experience of using a range of IT applications including Microsoft Office and computer based social care record keeping systems.
• Evidence of continuous professional development

At Remedy Recruitment Group, you will receive a personal one-one service from your dedicated consultant. You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

To find out more about this role and the many others we have available, please contact Dee Spencer on the Social Care Team at Remedy Recruitment Group