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Out of Hours Social Worker

£38 hourly rate

Stockport Council is currently recruiting for an experienced Social Worker to join their Out of Hours (OOH) Team full time, working a shift pattern outside of normal hours.

The OOH service provides an effective and timely response to urgent notifications that occur outside usual business hours that identify a child, or adult is vulnerable and at risk of harm. You will join a well-established, highly experienced team of Social Workers to perform this statutory social care function who benefit from Team Manager Support as well as On Call Service Lead support.  

Activity includes statutory social work functions such as Section 47 investigations, decision making, safeguarding adult investigations, placement of children (including pace beds) and adults in residential care, completion of welfare visits and checks. 

You will be provided with a solo protect device, which offers you personal security

Key Responsibilities of this role include:

To ensure an effective response to children, young people and adults in need of social work intervention when incident of concern or crisis arise outside of usual business working hours.

To have demonstrable knowledge of child protection, safeguarding children and adults, early help and care of looked after children and apply this to practice within the Out of Hours Service.

To keep abreast of new legislation and methods of work across Children’s Services and Adult Services.

Using professional judgement employ a range of interventions ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks.

To be responsible for identifying the need to initiate s47 children protection investigations and adult safeguarding investigations, including leading on the co-ordination and chairing of multi-agency strategy discussions.

Why work with We do Social Work?

New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly.

Twice weekly payroll.

Free DBS and compliance service.

Your own dedicated friendly consultant with extensive social work knowledge.

Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK.

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“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*

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We do social work is an equal opportunities employer and is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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