Our client Hackney council is looking for a Senior Social Worker to join their Family Help Service.

Key Accountabilities

Assessment Outcome :

• To provide a clear and accurate assessment of a child and his/her family's needs in line with statutory guidance
• To undertake interviews, observation and gather information from children, families and other agencies. To analyse, summarise and evaluate this information to provide a holistic assessment of a child's needs 1.2
• To understand the context of child development, parenting capacity and family and environmental factors in which to establish the needs of an individual child

Planning and service delivery

• To provide focused and purposeful social work interventions with explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes within the context of managing risk to children
• On the basis of assessed needs, to devise wr...