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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager to join the Fostering team at our client based in the West Midlands.

The appointed Team Manager will have the following skills and experience:

1. Thorough knowledge of childcare and fostering regulations.

2. At least 3 years post qualification experience in family placement work.

3. Able to demonstrate a successful track record in supervision/management of social workers.

4. The ability to form relationships and develop the service.

5. Comply to consistent care standards and compliance…

A Senior Practitioner is required to join a Looked After Children team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Looked After Children team, this Senior Practitioner will have the following responsibilities:

• Maintaining a strategic oversight of the placements of the council's Looked After Children, in order to maximize efficient use of current resources and establish future need.
• Establish and maintain arrangements for the efficient procurement of external placements for looked after children, maintaining an oversight of the cost…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join a Mental Health (Adults) team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Mental Health (Adults) team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• To carry out high quality, service user-centred assessments taking into account, risk, health, social and cultural needs.
• To carry out risk assessments, following the local policy.
• To act as an ASW, carrying out the range of roles and responsibilities defined in the Mental Health Act, or…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join an Adults with Physical Disabilities team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Adults with Physical Disabilities team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• Provision of care management services to Adults with learning disabilities.
• Providing a high quality responsive service using all appropriate methods of professional intervention and care management.
• Managing a caseload including a wide range of service-users with varying and often complex issues.
• Undertaking direct…

A Senior Practitioner is required to join a Children in Need team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Children in Need team, this Senior Practitioner will have the following responsibilities:

• To act as a source of consultation for colleagues within the team and where appropriate the Department by virtue of being an experienced and reliable Senior Practitioner.
• To assist in and contribute to the development of the practice standards in the Department as required and where relevant,…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join a Fostering and Adoption team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Fostering and Adoption team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• Prepare draft advertisements for fostering and adoption purposes and generally assist with recruitment of carers and campaigns.
• Co-ordinate efforts to secure adoptive and foster families for named children.
• Liaise and advise colleagues as necessary in preparing children and young people for adoptive and foster placements.
• Draw…

A Senior Practitioner is required to join a Children and Adolescent Mental Health team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Referral and Assessment team, this Senior Practitioner will have the following responsibilities:

• To work jointly and collaboratively with other CAMHS professionals to offer comprehensive mental health assessment and short term treatment services to young people.
• To carry a caseload of complex cases on a short-term basis, unless treatment plans dictate otherwise.
• To offer specialist consultation and advice…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join an Adults Hospital Discharge Team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Adults Hospital Discharge Team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• Identification of individual needs through assessment.
• Planning and designing individual care plans to meet those needs.
• Ensuring the delivery of services identified in care plans.
• Ensuring that regular monitoring and review of care plans is carried out.
• Accepting responsibility for actions in relation…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join a vibrant Children in Need team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Children in Need team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• Facilitate and undertake timely comprehensive risk assessment of children and families and to carry a complex caseload involving multi-disciplinary social work.
• Undertake specific tasks for absent colleagues on cases requiring action under the direction of the Children in Need team manager.
• Chairing meetings, where…

A Qualified Social Worker is required to join a Child Protection (Hospital) team in the West Midlands.

Working within the Child Protection (Hospital) team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload, which includes vulnerable users and/or those with complex problems, taking action where necessary to protect users and others in emergency situations.
• To make appropriate assessments of individuals’ social care needs, within specified time limits and in collaboration with health and other relevant…