3 Month Contract With A Local Authority

Job Purpose

• To provide statutory social work services to people across Bath and North East Somerset who find themselves in vulnerable situations, focusing on protection, prevention, and safeguarding, to improve outcomes and quality of life for individuals and families.
  
• This role is a fully qualified Social Worker with post-qualification experience, managing their own caseload, receiving professional supervision and guidance, and working in multi-agency and inter-professional settings. 
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• Undertake assessments of need and risk, to inform evidence-based decisions and care planning that will protect individuals with needs and promote the wellbeing of service users, carers and families.
  
• Undertake safeguarding enquires in line with legislation, statutory guidance, and local policies and procedures, informed by need and risks, taking a think family approach,
  
• Provide professional input to evidence-based, risk-informed decisions in line with legislation, statutory guidance, and local policies and procedures, to ensure appropriate action is taken.
  
• Create and deliver strengths-based, outcome focused planning to deliver positive outcomes for individuals, families and carers.
  
• Monitor and review the delivery of the relevant plan to ensure that it is meeting assessed needs and delivering improvement for service users, making changes and adjustments to relevant plans as required.
  
• Identify, assess and monitor risk, addressing risks where possible and escalating as required, to ensure that situations are addressed at the earliest possible opportunity and risk minimised in line with the legislative framework and internal policies and procedures.
  
• Respect service users as unique through a commitment to anti-discriminatory practice, which seeks to reduce, undermine or eliminate discrimination and oppression and remove the barriers that prevent people accessing BNES services.
  
• Build collaborative, professional relationships with service users through direct work, taking a person-centred approach to ensure that service users (as well as carers, family representatives and formal advocates) are fully enabled to participate in planning and decision making regarding their own lives.
  
• Manage a varied caseload (including complex and higher-risk cases) where service users have diverse and cumulative requirements.
  
• Work collaboratively with other professional teams and multi-agency colleagues over organisational boundaries, to ensure service users experience cohesive and seamless support to meet their assessed needs.
  
• Maintain accurate professional records and complex case files in accordance with statutory requirements and local policies and procedures, to ensure that information is auditable.
  

Essential Experience Required

• Post qualifying experience in undertaking assessments of need and risk in statutory social     work.
  
• Knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, local policy and procedures, SWE code of ethics, Professional Capabilities Framework and multi-disciplinary practice.
  
• Experience of managing a varied caseload.
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• Degree in Social Work (minimum Upper Second, if classified) or equivalent. Must be HPCP registered.
  
• Registered with Social Work England.
  

This Role Closes On 20/08/2025