Children & Families Service Outreach Worker
Tower Hamlets
Part Time Role - 17.50 hours per week
Job Role
To provide high quality casework and service to vulnerable children and families, ensuring social work practice is in the best interest of children.
Safeguard children, and improve outcomes for children in terms of their health, education, social and emotional wellbeing. This involves providing a service to users that ensures that assessments, care plans and actions are in place to promote the longer term safety, welfare and well-being of children and young people, enabling them to maximise their life chances.
Contribute, as an active member to a positive team culture, to achieve the objectives of the service, working with Restorative Practice as our overarching analytical practice framework.
Key Responsibilities
Prioritise and respond to requests for assistance, establishing sufficient information about the needs of clients so as to be able to determine the level of risk and the nature and type of support required.
Carry out assessments of needs and risk, and liaise with other specialists and agencies as necessary, and enable them to be involved and contribute to the process.
Ensure that assessments, planning and interventions pay particular attention to individual needs, strengths and wishes,and include critical reflection and analysis, aims, and options to achieve change. Develop and progress care plans as necessary, ensuring that care plans include clear statements of purpose, change, outcome and impact for child and family social work.
Undertake at all times to work respectfully and collaboratively with service users, and take into account the views of children, young people and their carers and to facilitate inclusive practice to ensure participation is achieved