Qualified Social Worker Children's Services - Stockport

Posted 23 May 2019
Salary £24 - £25 per hour
LocationStockport
Job type Contract
Discipline Social Work Jobs
ReferenceMM - Stockport`_1558609490
Contact NameMark Manning

Job description

Maxxima's Social Work team are currently recruiting for Children's Social Workers to fill job roles in Stockport

The roles will be based within Children and Families Services who are looking for Qualified Social Workers to start as soon as possible on a full-time basis. The pay rate for these roles is up to £25 per hour, and the roles will initially be a three-month contract, with the likelihood of extension.

Requirements and details of these QSW vacancies:

We are looking for candidate who have experience of working in a busy Statutory Children's Service with vacancies based in the following.

Adoption Support Social Worker - Etrop Court , Wythenshawe
Role
We are looking to recruit an experienced Adoption Support Social Worker , to join our multi agency Adoption Support Team , delivering services to adopted adults , adopted children and adoptive families.
The Social Worker will have particular responsibility for delivering our First Response service for adoptive families and will have expert knowledge in the needs of adopted children and the additional resources required to be an adoptive parent.
They will be knowledgeable in supporting adopted adults to access their birth records and be sensitive to the issues raised during this process and will possess expert assessment skills to undertake adoption assessments of need.
About us
Adoption Counts is a Regional Adoption agency, delivering adoption services in Cheshire East, Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Trafford local authorities. The agency was one of 5 national demonstrator projects, and was the second agency to go "live" in July 2017. We continue to play a lead role in national developments and have strong links with the DFE. Covering a large geographical area, we function in a hub and spoke model. Hub functions such as recruitment, marketing, performance management, panel management and finance are based in Wythenshawe. The area is then covered from three geographical spokes-the northern spoke being in Salford, central in Wythenshawe, and south based in Wythenshawe and Middlewich.
Adoption counts has a specialist adoption support service with a clearly defined management structure. We are one of only two RAAs in the country with performance Improvement funding to develop a Centre of Excellence for Adoption support. There are some very exciting developments in relation to delivering multi agency adoption support services

Please contact mark.manning@maxximagroup.com or call 0116 2620888

Maxxima benefits:
*Dedicated and experienced consultants
*Excellent and highly competitive rates of pay
*Exclusive opportunities you won't find anywhere else
*Dedicated payroll consultant to ensure prompt payment
*Guidance and advice on CV and interview techniques
*Practical assistance with professional body registration
*A choice of PAYE, umbrella or LTD company payments
*Practical assistance with relocation, accommodation and DBS/CRB checks
*The security of working with a CCS supplier, established since 2001

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Reasonable adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Recommend a colleague:

Often, our candidates are so pleased with our service that they recommend us to their friends and colleagues. To encourage this and say thank you, we offer a referral bonus incentive.

The way it works is simple: if you introduce a candidate who is not previously known to Maxxima and we are successful in placing them, we will pay you up to £1,500. More information regarding referrals can be found on our website.
*The post qualification experience range stated is purely a guide. We will consider candidates that fall outside of this range if they can strongly demonstrate the required competencies.