Locum School Social Worker

London Borough of Lambeth is looking for a Social Worker to be based in one of its Secondary Schools.

This is a Locum Social Work role.

The school social worker should be conducting a combination of statutory and preventative social work as a focus. You will be holding cases and working with children and families from their link school.

As a school social worker you will also offer a number of interventions to support pupil and families to prevent cases escalating to statutory threshold.

Benefits for you as a School Social Worker:

• Competitive pay rate of £37.00 per hour
• Chance to enhance your CV
• Easily accessible via car or public transport

Your responsibilities as a School Social Worker:

• Provide advice on threshold for MARF referrals
• Undertake Child Protection investigations
• Undertake CIN/CP and LAC work
• Can provide groupwork for vulnerable pupils
• Can provide targeted work with pupils and their parents when threshold for statutory intervention is not required
• Can provide groupwork for parents
• Provide training for school staff
• Work with vulnerable pupils to reduce exclusions
• Working with partner agencies such as school nurse, safer schools' officer, YOS etc to support pupils
• To provide targeted interventions in school to vulnerable pupils
• To provide drops ins for pupils and carers for advice and signposting
• To work in partnership with school safeguarding team to identify and support children at risk of harm

Requirements of you as a School Social Worker:

• A recognised Social Work qualification (Degree/DipSW/CQSW)
• A valid Social Work England registration
• Have competent knowledge and experience in CP,CIN and LAC
• A valid UK driving licence and car is essential to this role

Location: Lambeth, London

Umbrella pay rate: £37.00 per hour

PAYE payment options available also

Please follow the instructions on this website, or alternatively contact Jordan Peat on 0118 948 5555 or email jpeat@charecruitment.com for further details and please do be sure to leave your contact details.

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