Job description

We are looking for a Social Worker to join our Children's Looked After Team

This role requires a Social Work Qualification with a minimum of 3 years post qualified experience in Frontline and Children Looked After work.

About the team

The team consists of a small group of social workers that report to a senior practitioner. Their work includes assessment, care planning, and permanency planning for children and young people, both of whom are in care proceedings, as well as children who are looked after following final court orders.

They are responsible for progressing work within the statutory framework for Looked After Children, which involves ensuring Looked After Children reviews, personal education planning meetings, and Looked After Children medicals are progressed within statutory timescales.

Sometimes the team works with a cohort of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and will be expected to ta...