Advanced Social Worker – Children’s

St Helier, United Kingdom | Posted on 20/10/2026

1. Take a lead role in multi-agency decision making to develop strong and effective working partnerships with other agencies and services involved with children and families. Chair complex meetings which may include strategy meetings, fostering and adoption panels and core planning meetings and reviews to ensure positive outcomes for young people.

2. Leverage professional knowledge and practice using accredited assessment tools to gather an analyse complex information from a variety of sources enabling the development of comprehensive assessments and informed recommendations.

3. Drive the delivery of high-quality social work services to children and families to ensure the welfare of children is safeguarded and they are protected in accordance with the legal and statutory obligations of Jersey Children’s Service.

4. Guide, coach and mentor team members to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, ensuring adherence to relevant legislation codes of conduct, policies and procedures ensuring the criteria for continuing professional registration is fulfilled.

5. Lead the induction and training activities for ASYE’s who will be based in the team. Where required, take the role of practice educator for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.

6. Holistically assess, develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people and their parents/carers. Wherever possible, promote children’s individual views and wishes to support their rights to control their own lives and to make informed choices about the services they receive.

7. Provide clear, accurate and appropriate, communication to service users and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work team including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary, to establish and maintain the

trust and confidence of service users and carers.

8. Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adhere to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and take responsibility for maintaining and improving personal knowledge and skills in order to ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled and that members of the public and other professionals have confidence in the service.

9. Create and maintain clear and accurate records to ensure that all relevant information is held as required by established procedures and best practice and in line with data protection, confidentiality, disclosure and consent policies, always bearing in mind that such documents may be disclosable for the purpose of Serious Case Reviews, external inquiry and inspection, and to the Royal Court in respect of civil applications or in criminal proceedings associated with the protection of vulnerable individuals.

10. Provide management cover and decision making as delegated by Team Manager, including Out of Hours as first point of contact in situations of crisis requiring an immediate operational response to risk.

11. Have their practice recognised as exemplary and provide leadership and professional wisdom to their colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity. Develop and ensure best practice as professional lead in assigned teams.

Please state the levelofeducation andprofessionalqualificationsand/ or specific occupational training required.

A professional qualifica-tion in Social Work (e.g. Degree, Diploma…