Social Worker/Senior Practitioner - Assessment OCC610490

Job details

Salary range: £35,745 - £42,403 per annum 

Work location: County Hall, Oxford and hybrid working

Hours per week: 37 and part time requests can be considered. 

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: This role is subject to a Criminal Records Check 

Closing date:  Applications will be reviewed as they are received  and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interview date: To be confirmed

About us

We have an exciting opportunity for Social Workers/Senior Practitioners to join our newly-established Integrated Assessment Team (IAS). In IAS, you will focus on Section 17 Child & Family Assessments. All assessments begin with a multi-disciplinary planning meeting to ensure our assessments are meaningful, focused and timely. We are determined that children and their families receive the right help, at the right time through proportionate assessments that clearly distinguish between need, risk and harm.

We also have an exciting opportunity for 4 Senior Practitioners to join our exciting new team – the Integrated Safeguarding Investigation Team. In ISIT, you will be part of a Section 47 investigation team responding to new referrals for children where there is evidence they are suffering, or at risk of suffering, significant harm. Working with partner agencies, you will quickly assess any risk to children and work with their families to form safe plans for them, while completing a Child & Family Assessment to determine the best plan of further support. Although your involvement with children and their families will only be for the time of a Section 47 enquiry and Child & Family Assessment, you will play a key role in ensuring robust plans of support are formed where a Child In Need or Child Protection Plan is required. 

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About you

We need social workers to join our team who are creative, committed, and child-focused to provide our children with the highest quality of assessment and planning where they require our help for their needs to be met.

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible working
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays 
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development

Would you like to know more?

Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria 

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Laura Watson-Harrison – Laura.watson-harrison@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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