Intake Team; Senior Social Worker

Salary: £39,834 to £48,421 | £5,000 Annual Enhancement | Access to CPD | Supportive Management | Learning & Development | Flexible Working

• Capped Cases – aiming to exceed no more than 20 – 22 cases
• Large, supportive Team
• Flexible Working
• Progression opportunities available & Training

Due to recent expansion, the service is undergoing a recruitment drive to attract social workers for the Intake and Assessment team. The goal is clear, keep cases low and ensure referrals from the Front-door are handled within their appropriate timescales. The service is undergoing and pursuing an improvement journey and is keen to establish management consistency.

Every day is different within the fast-paced assessment team. This team completes a range of assessments, conducts section 47 enquiries, and establishes whether longer-term plans are needed for families.

The priority for this team is assessing what is needed to support children and families, if anything, and then moving this support to the right team. Families will be transferred to our family support teams if intervention is longer than 3 months.

You will need to be able to offer empathetic support to families who have just been referred to Child and Young People Services. Families in these circumstances are often in crisis and as such workers need to be calm and child-focused when things are unpredictable.

As this is a statutory role, you will require a social work qualification & registration to Social Work Wales.