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Qualified Social Worker - Children with Disabilities Team

📍 Location: Bradford (BD1 1TQ)
💷 Pay Rate: Competitive (Agency) 📄 Contract: Ongoing Agency Contract

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Qualified Social Worker to join the Children with Disabilities Team within a well-established local authority in Bradford.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children with disabilities and their families while working within a supportive and experienced team on a long-term agency contract.

About the Role

As a Qualified Social Worker in the Children with Disabilities Team, you will manage a caseload of children and young people with complex needs, ensuring they receive the appropriate support, assessments, and services to achieve the best possible outcomes.

You will work closely with families, carers, education, health professionals, and partner agencies to safeguard children and promote their welfare through effective care planning and multi-agency collaboration.

Key ResponsibilitiesManage a caseload of children and young people with disabilities.Complete Child and Family Assessments, reviews, and statutory visits.Develop and implement child-centred care and support plans.Work collaboratively with families, carers, schools, health professionals, and partner agencies.Undertake safeguarding duties and manage risk appropriately.Prepare reports for meetings, reviews, and court proceedings where required.Maintain accurate and up-to-date case records in line with statutory requirements.RequirementsSocial Work England registration.Significant post-qualifying experience within Children's Services.Strong knowledge of safeguarding, child protection, and court processes.Experience working with children with disabilities or within a similar specialist team.Excellent assessment, communication, and analytical skills.Ability to work effectively within a multi-agency environment.BenefitsCompetitive agency pay rate.Supportive and experienced team environment.Opportunity to influence and develop best practice.Ongoing agency contract with the potential for extension.

Interested?

Apply today by submitting your updated CV for immediate consideration, or get in touch for a confidential discussion about this opportunity.

Vansh Sharma
Eden Brown Synergy

020 3650 0303

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Bradford Children and Families Trust is Looking for Senior Social Worker for their Children with Disability Team.

Payrate: -£35.00 p/h Umbrella

Location: - Sir Henry Mitchell House, BD5 0QL

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users.To provide a Social Work service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct therapeutic work, care planning and management. Be able to integrate a theoretical approach with practice.Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision making in line with professional criteria and making sure that case work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed.Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organisational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, multiple significant risk factors, and the need to consider the public interest.Ensure appropriate care for service users ensuring the best use of existing mainstream and specialist resources and demonstrating innovation with these resources where appropriate.Accept responsibility for and supervision of service users who are provided with care services and undertake expert and robust review of such cases.Provide expert witness and give evidence to court and other relevant bodies as required, including giving evidence in court in proceedings, and including the presentation of reports and applications for appropriate Legal Orders.Work in partnership with other agencies and organisations, to fulfil the provision of a Social Work service, representing the perspective of the organisation. Maintain contact with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector professionals for information exchange, the exercise of judgment and to influence outcomes in case planning and decision making.Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments, chairing and leading meetings when required and participate in planning meetings and reviews, demonstrating and promoting information sharing within/between organisations.Mentor newly qualified and less experienced Social Workers to develop their expertise and/or offer placements to Social Work students as a practice educator.To self-manage your own challenging and demanding workload of cases, seeking support where necessary, and undertake research, and apply knowledge regarding emerging best practice. Main Duties and ResponsibilitiesParticipate in the provision of training throughout the department, assisting in the development of new resources, working on specialist projects and acting as a member of a professional development or service planning group.Identify and act on your learning needs to participate continuously in professional development opportunities, including regular supervision and appraisal, in line with Social Work registration.Apply Social Work ethical principles and values to guide your professional practice and decision-making including partnership, consultation and the participation of service users.Maintain up to date, accurate, concise and purposeful records of work in line with the departmental policy on case recording and access to files, producing high quality assessments that accurately assess and manage higher levels of risk and complexity.To act in accordance with the priorities and policies of the department, actively promoting and supporting the council policies on equality and working in an nitroprusside manner

Essential Requirements:

Social Work Qualification - Degree or equivalentAt least 3 years' experience as a social worker within children's servicesSocial Work England RegistrationDriving license and access to own vehicle

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV to Yug Vaishnav at or call on 020 4574 3378.

Benefits of working with Eden Brown Synergy include:

DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown SynergyReferral bonus if you refer a colleague or friend to usBonus for finding your own jobTwice weekly payroll

Dedicated recruitment consultant who will support you throughout your job search, employment and beyond.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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