Children''s Social Worker - Fostering Duty

Our client Devon county council is looking for a Children''s Social Worker to join their Fostering Duty team.All Experienced Social Workers have the following responsibilities:To safeguard children and young people and adults at risk.To take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive, and support others to adopt that approach.To gather information from service users, informal networks and other agencies to analyse, summarise and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of needs, balancing risk and protective factors.To formulate and produce outcome-focused plans with clear aims and objectives (within the context of managing risk), and support others to do so.To maintain case records, keeping them up to date and to provide concise and accurate information about a service user''s circumstances and plans. Make use of IT systems provided by the Service, complying with policy and procedures.To manage a workload of complex cases and organise work activities; taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, working to timescales and meeting national and local performance expectations.To develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team, wider service area and partner agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary approach.To ensure that all necessary communications and referrals are made to relevant agencies, working together with ..... full job details .....