129809 - Social Worker - Assessment Team

Surrey aims to work alongside families, to respect families and their rights, to work with them in partnership and with their informed consent, to recognise their strengths and help them identify their needs. Our overarching duty is to promote the upbringing of children within their families, where this is compatible with the welfare of the children.Social workers in Surrey will be supported to develop high levels of skill in motivational practice which they will use to help parents identify the aspects of their lives/behaviours that they want to change and provide the help and support to families, on a partnership basis, that they need to support them in their change.

Casework Management

* Provide high quality relationship based social work services to children and families at tier 4 level of Surrey Safeguarding Children Board's Effective Family Resilience criteria.Safeguarding

Understand the forms of abuse and neglect that children can be exposed to and differentiate clearly between significant impairment and significant harm

* Use motivational interviewing skills to try to engage parents in changing their behaviours that can cause impairment to their children development or significant harm and engage appropriate adult services to support them to change.Assessment and Review

* To undertake strengths based assessments of immediate and wider family members and engage them in developing plans that will meet the needs of children and that are SMART

* To ensure plans are revised and reviewed regularly and inform manager of any escalations or risks and also any improvements

* To ensure children are looked after are placed in permanent alternative families as soon as it is ascertained that their needs cannot be met and that their wishes and feelings are included in plans.

* To ensure looked after children health and development, their education training and preparation for independence are advanced and their needs for contact with family members, siblings and friends is prioritised

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