# Social Worker (Children with Disabilities team)

**Company**: London Borough of Ealing
**Location**: London Borough of Ealing, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 46,161 - 49,590 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are seeking a qualified social worker to join our Children with Disabilities team.

The successful candidate will be a team player, working with colleagues in a range of disciplines, sharing knowledge, and providing support and advice to deliver the best possible outcomes for local children and their families.

Responsibilities of a social worker in the Children with Disabilities team:

- Manage a caseload of approximately 16-18 children

- Undertake a range of duties and responsibilities on behalf of the Department as specified in the Children Act 1989 and other relevant legislation

- Investigate alleged neglect, ill treatment, or abuse of children and make enquiries as to the need to provide services to such children

- Supervise children subject to a Child Protection Plan

- Assess and supervise children looked after by Ealing

- Prepare reports, statements in family proceedings courts, and attend court

- Design and implement care/protection plans and encourage the development of quality standards and practice

- Provide innovative social work services to service users

- Follow a guiding principle that children should remain with their own families wherever possible

- Promote a learning culture and lead on sharing and disseminating best practice across the department and partnerships

- Undertake complex assessments, make sound analytical judgements, and utilise the most effective means of providing innovative care packages within budgetary constraints

- Supervise and support students using the practice educator framework

What can Ealing offer you?

- An exciting opportunity to develop your career within a supportive, well-organised structure

- Ongoing personalised training and development opportunities

- Access to a wide range of high-quality resources to support children and their families

- An excellent benefits package with a range of innovative programmes to help you look after your health and wellbeing

We welcome applications from experienced international social workers and are happy to sponsor the right candidate.

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## Skills

### Required
- Child Protection
- Social Work
- Assessment
- Care Planning
- Communication
- Analytical Judgement

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