Social Worker (Parenting Capacity Assessment)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SWC
Salary: £39,934 – £51,574 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 1st December 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 9th December 2024

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Service

This post is part of a specialist team working as part of the internal resource for the conducting of all court directed parenting capacity assessments and delivering on specialist parenting programmes.

About the Role

The role involves conducting Parenting Assessments within designated timescales as per the established Framework. The primary responsibility is to evaluate and identify levels of risk and need for children and young people who are in care, subject to a child protection plan, or identified as children in need. This includes delivering protective or supportive services accordingly to ensure their safety and well-being.
The candidate will be responsible for implementing care plans by collaborating with parents and professionals from various agencies to achieve better outcomes for the children and young people. This includes formulating care plans in partnership with the children, their families, and other care providers based on thorough assessments. Additionally, the role involves producing court statements and providing evidence in court on behalf of the Local Authority when necessary.
The ideal candidate should have experience working with vulnerable children, young people, and their families, including undertaking specialist PAM’s assessments. They should be knowledgeable in using a psychodynamic framework to understand family dynamics and support families in reaching their potential. Experience in conducting parenting programs is also essential to effectively carry out the duties of the role.

About You

You will deliver a high-quality social work service to children and families working in partnership with other statutory and third sector organisations. In your role you will work with children in care and their families to ensure children and young people are safeguarded by undertaking parenting assessments, running parenting programmes and undertaking direct work with children and young people. You will also lead on specific parenting programmes and undertake court directed parenting capacity assessments, including undertaking PAMs parenting assessments and Sibling assessment (Together or apart specialist assessment).

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.