Social Worker Court Team

Job description

About the role:

Become part of a supportive and dynamic team, working to ensure that the best decision for the child is achieved.

About you:

• Ability to build relationships with professionals, families and children in an empathetic and honest manner
• Skilled at applying critical thinking, professional curiosity, analysis and evidence-based research to form an expert opinion and demonstrate your reasoning.
• Excellent at recognising risks as well as balancing strengths and weakness to develop an appropriate conclusion, whilst maintaining a child focussed position.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet court set deadlines, whilst maintaining excellent report writing skills.
• Work effectively as part of a team, the ability to use supervision as a supportive mechanism.
• Have an understanding of Court protocols, expectations and requirements. Ensuring an active and current understanding of the PLO.

What you will do:

• Assume case responsibility from the point of issuing and preparing Initial Statements and Care plans.
• Attend Family Network Meetings, oversee Viability Assessments and Connected Person Assessments.
• Provide and attend CLA reviews, working closely with all relevant professionals, parents and family members.
• Progress and review care planning for children and their families within the plo process and progress and oversee Final hearings.
• Hold and be accountable for a manageable caseload that includes Court applications, CLA review and children subject to care & placement orders.
• Be responsible for commencing and overseeing Life Story work, whilst working with adoption services to seek appropriate families for children subject to care & placement Orders.