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SOCIAL WORKER - LAC TEAM - ADOPTION CASES AND NO COURT WORK

Employer
NonStop Consulting
Location
Horsham
Salary
£28000 - £37000 per annum
Closing date
Dec 14, 2017

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Sector
Allied Health and Social Care, Social Care
Contract Type
Employee
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
Government
Jobseeker Type
Entry Level and Graduate

Job Details

SOCIAL WORKER - LAC TEAM - ADOPTION CASES AND NO COURT WORK

NonStop's client, based in West Sussex, is looking to hire a Qualified Social Worker in their LAC team within Children's Services.

This Local Authority has restructured their Service and divided Looked After Children team into two groups. Therefore, one of them deal only with court work and the other works in cooperation with Adoption team and takes care of assessments and placements. This solution allows you to have more efficient system of helping kids and enable current staff to focus on particular aspects.

Our client is offering you:

- Pure LAC responsibilities, which doesn't include any court work. It will allow you to save lots of stress and instead focus on the quality of your assessments and build close relations with children;

- Cooperation with Adoption team where you will be working also on some adoption cases. Thanks to this you will be able to see the actual outcomes and results of the process, which will give you lots of satisfaction and motivation for the future;

- Excellent training opportunities offered to you due to the fact, that they're currently looking for someone for the permanent position. Based on that, they are more than willing to invest support, supervision and management. You will be able to improve the skills and focus on your professional development;

- Career progression, based on the fact that most of the Team Managers has started here as Senior Practitioners, you can easily imagine yourself getting promoted quickly in the next couple of years;

- Relocation allowance for those social workers, who are willing to move to become a part of this Local Authority. It will be a great help for you to start over and cover first expenses.

All that benefits make that role a perfect opportunity if you're looking for some new, less stressful and more inspiring experience within Looked After Children field. Yo can also count on a quick feedback, so you'll know what you stand on with your application.

Interview: immediately

Salary: £28.000-37.000 per annum (depending upon experience)

Location: South England

If you are interested in this role and want to discuss more details, please contact:

Aleksandra Kaczmarek

NonStop Care

Tel No: +44 (0) 203 519 1775

E-mail: A.Kaczmarek@nonstop-recruitment.com

NonStop Care is a leading specialist recruiter in the qualified social work sector across the UK. Committed to providing the best service, our expert consultants are renowned for professionalism, unrivaled industry knowledge and extensive candidate networks. We provide permanent and locum as well as independent assessment opportunities with local authorities, the private and third sectors.

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Our Consultants are trained to deliver an exceptional standard of recruitment services to clients across the life sciences, chemical, care, educations, technical, digital and finance industries. 

Our clients – and bottom line profits - tell us that we do a great many things very well. Complacency, however, is the last word you would associate with us. We work incredibly hard to deliver better and better results, based on stronger and stronger service delivery.  Which is why we believe the best is yet to come – for us, our clients and for the people who have what it takes to join us on the journey.

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