Youth Resilience Social Worker - Outstanding authority (Permanent)

NonStop's client continues to build capacity to support our most vulnerable groups in South West London. To do this they are continuing to attract the right professionals to join them as they continue to provide OUTSTANDING services.

The Youth Resilience Service has a particular focus on vulnerable adolescents age 13 to 18, where contextual safeguarding is prevalent. This includes universal, targeted and statutory services alongside commissioned services across the borough. The service aims to deliver support to vulnerable adolescents with a focus on strengthening contextual safeguarding arrangements, providing positive interventions and building family resilience.

Requirements:

• Experience of managing complex cases, making sure robust risk management takes place to manage assessed vulnerabilities and risk to protect adolescents and where appropriate members of the general public.
• Experience of undertaking effective assessment and care planning within child in need and child protection frameworks.
• Experience of tailoring support packages to the needs of young people and their families in line with the Youth Resilience intervention framework to achieve best outcomes.
• To work restoratively with all adolescents and their families
• Experience of working within an integrated working environment, including effective multi-agency working
• Experience of effective recording, monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance of interventions within case work practice using a wide range of tools and Management Information Systems
• An awareness of risk management and safeguarding in the context of social care including legislation, policy and procedures related to responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring that adolescents are safeguarded from harm whilst parents and carers of adolescents are supported in their parenting capacity to protect and nurture them whilst ensuring that the public is protected where youth offending is concerned.

For further information on the role, please send your CV in a Microsoft Word format to Jessel on [Email Removed] or give me a ring on [Removed] Ext: 7153.