Job Description

Social Work Team Co-Ordinator **

We are working in partnership with a Local Authority based in the Islington area who are looking to appoint a Social Work Team Co-Ordinator to work within their Childrens Social Care Service.

Contract - 4-6 Month agency contract with a view to being extended on an ongoing basis.

Working Hours - Full time position (35 hours per week).

Location - N1 1XR.

Rate of Pay - £20.59+ per hour. (negotiable on experience).

Job Purpose:

A Social Work Coordinator (SWC) is a para-professional whose primary function is to provide enhanced administrative support in meeting the demands of front line practice.

This practical support is critical in ensuring the child and family social worker's time is used to best effect in helping families to keep children safe.

This requires a high level of understanding of a child and family social worker's job in helping families to safeguard children.About The Role:

Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person's / vulnerable adults in the care of the service, including undertaking regular Child Protection training at a level commensurate with role.

Create, maintain and improve administrative systems to enable the service to meet its aims of delivering a high quality service to children and families.

Work pro-actively and co-operatively within the service to ensure that timely and accurate information about activity and performance is produced and collated as required, and maintain statistical information to agreed deadlines and a high level of accuracy.

Develop and maintain good working relationships with other teams within Children's Social Care, other Council departments and clients referred to the service.

Deal sensitively with enquiries or telephone messages, logging calls accurately and alerting social work staff or managers immediately to any issues requiring immediate attention.

Use appropriate databases, Microsoft Office and other ICT systems to produce reports, spreadsheets and other documents as required supporting the service and assist others in the use of information technology systems when required.

Follow guidelines to produce standard written or electronic responses to enquiries from family members or professionals to tight deadlines.Experience Needed:

Knowledge and understanding of Children's Social Care, 'London Child Protection Procedure' & 'Working Together to Safeguard Children'.

Local Authority / Public Sector.*We offer a market leading referral scheme of up to £250 so if you know of someone who may also be looking for an exciting career opportunity*

To apply for this role please email & call Dane on (phone number removed)