Social Worker Children with Disabilities | Pendle

Overview

Job Description | Salary £35,325 - £44,711 Per Annum | Permanent, Full Time 37 Hours Per Week | Burnley & Pendle

International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship

Social Worker | Children with Disabilities Lancashire County Council is currently seeking an experienced, dedicated and passionate Social Worker to join our Children with Disabilities Team. We currently have one vacancy in the Children with Disabilities Team in Burnley & Pendle.

The CwD Service supports children and young people from birth to aged 18 and Care Leavers up to age 25 who have severe and profound disabilities, and their families. Working long term with our families enables us to fully embrace and be on the journey with the children and young people we support and see their achievements at different stages of their life to ensure that they have good positive outcomes and that their voices are heard.

We take a strengths-based approach to supporting children and young people, to ensure we achieve the best for the children, young people and families we support. No day is the same with the Children with Disabilities Team. If you want variety, challenge and an incredibly rewarding social care role then this is the service for you.

The Children with Disabilities social work service consists of 6 Teams supporting families across the whole of Lancashire and includes Consultant Social Workers, Social Workers and Senior Social Workers, Child and Family Practitioners and Leaving Care Personal Advisors. We are a specialist social work service undertaking all aspects of social work for children and young people who meet the criteria for support from our service.

This includes undertaking assessments, direct work, supporting Children in Need, Children in Our Care and Care Leavers, undertaking safeguarding and court work, complex multi-agency planning, work within the Mental Capacity Act and supporting the transition to adulthood. The service offers the opportunity for the development of a wide range of practice experience and skills and career progression within the service.

Multi-agency working is key in supporting our children, young people and their families. We work closely with multi-agency partners and other teams across children's and education services to provide joined-up support that makes a real difference and improves outcomes for the children and families we support. We recognise the importance of working creatively with our children and young people. We focus on our children and young people as individuals, getting to know them, learning to communicate with them and understand their daily experiences, supporting them to improve their daily lives and outcomes and those of their families.

Working long term with the children and families enables us to keep families together, build positive relationships and prevent concerns escalating by providing individualised packages of care and support.

Our aim is to ensure children and young people with disabilities are supported to achieve their full potential, reach their goals to ensure that they lead a full and inclusive life and be given the same opportunities as their peers. Come and join us on our journey to make a difference to the children and young people we support who really are at the heart of what we do and we feel it is an honour to be part of their lives.

Working with children and young people with severe and profound disabilities and their families is both challenging and rewarding. As a member of this service you will have a real opportunity to make a significant difference to the children, young people and their families you are there to support. As part of the Children with Disabilities Service you will have a range of opportunities to gain and develop a wide range of knowledge and skill in this specialist area, learning through formal training, colleagues, multi-agency partners and children, young people and their families.

We are looking for Social Workers and Senior Social Workers who can demonstrate the following in their practice and skills:

• Passion –…