Roles
Team Manager
Supervising a team of highly-skilled Social Workers, you'll be responsible for monitoring the individual performance of our staff, helping develop their skills and promoting best practice in social work.
Showing a high regard for council policies and procedures, you'll ensure the team adheres to HR, Health & Safety and finance legislature. And by keeping up to date with current changes in child work practice, you'll make sure we provide the best possible service.
Able to communicate at all levels, you'll be as confident chairing high level meetings as you are working individually with key team members. You'll have a Dip.SW or equivalent qualification in Social Work and be GSCC registered, along with extensive experience in managing Children and Families. Most importantly you'll balance a keen business sense with the sensitivity and consideration needed in this area.
Deputy Team Manager
Supporting the Team Manager, you'll be charged with the assessment and care management of highly complex casework. You'll assess situation needs and prioritise competing demands, adhering to Council policies and procedures, to ensure that appropriate decisions are always made. Building good relationships with parents/carers, sustaining effective working relationships within own division, other council groups and external agencies, you'll help formulate and implement appropriate protection/care plans that keep the needs of children in our care at the forefront of all our actions.
You'll need significant exposure to child protection work and/or children 'Looked After', a Dip.SW or equivalent qualification in social work and be GSCC registered, and significant post-qualification experience in statutory child care. You'll also have an in-depth knowledge of child development, modern research findings and the Children Act 1989 and 2004.
Social Worker
You'll manage, monitor and review care plans involving children and their families. Liaising with other agencies including Education, Health and the Police, you'll make informed, constructive recommendations for service provisions.
Maintaining up-to-date case records, you'll ensure compliance with the group's recording policy, to facilitate the retrieval and analysis of information required by the department. Working closely with fellow team members, parents and their children, you'll utilise the resources available and undertake all appropriate duties to investigate, assess and prevent the ill-treatment of children in Enfield.
For this role, you'll need to be a qualified social worker, with GSCC registration and knowledge of working with 'Looked After' children and individuals on the Child Protection Register. You'll need a broad knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and 2004 and related guidance, an interest in major research findings in this area, plus the ability to identify and apply these developments to your work.