Qualified Social Worker | Children with Learning Disabilities & Special Educational Needs Team | Cambridgeshire

Qualified Social Worker | Children with Learning Disabilities & Special Educational Needs Team | Cambridgeshire

Contract – £32 per hour

We require an experienced Qualified Social Worker to work within a Children with Disabilities/Special Educational Needs team based within Cambridgeshire. To be successful for this role, you are required to have a minimum of 2 years recent Social Work experience of working within a Children with Learning Disabilities/Special Educational Needs team.

You will be required to support and care for young adults with complex needs. Keeping them safe and comfortable and promoting their independence as much as possible, is a big part of this role. You would attend to the adult’s needs throughout their day, complete general housekeeping duties and take the adults into the community and promote any vocational interests within the adults.

Our young people have behavioural, learning or mental health challenges and therefore, require enough support and guidance to achieve their own personal goals and be given opportunities they wouldn’t necessarily have had. Therefore, we require our staff to be motivated by helping others and have a keen interest in working with Special Educational Needs.

The successful Qualified Social Worker will have experience of:

• Managing a caseload of people with multiple and complex and profound learning disabilities.
• Working in partnership with other professionals devising individual care plans based on needs and risks.
• Working with vulnerable Children with making Best Interests decisions under 'The Mental Capacity Act'.
• Acting as duty officer on a Rota basis.
• Conducting assessments
• Writing reports
• Conducting reviews

To apply for this role you must have:

• A relevant Social Work qualification (BA/MA Social Work/DipSW or equivalent)
• Be HCPC Registered
• Experience within a Childrens with Disabilities
• Be eligible to work within the UK
• Be a car driver

4Recruitment Services is a specialist recruitment agency for Qualified Social Workers and Healthcare professionals.

We offer:

• An excellent referral scheme of £250 for each successfully placed referral
• HCPC certified complimentary training
• Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy or other Social Work vacancies in your area please contactDavid Burgess on 0208 514 9115.