Job Title: Qualified Social Worker

Location: Dublin

Length: 24-month contract option to extend for additional 24 months.

The Client: Tusla

The Role:

• Provide a direct point of access for the local community and offer initial and holistic social assessment and intervention to children, youth, families, and groups.
• Provide an initial assessment service to the care group and to develop referral procedures with other social work networked services.
• Identify service users' individual and collective needs in partnership with them and co-create early interventions and/or social action strategies to meet those needs.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload appropriate to the post.
• Provide supportive counselling, emotional and practical support, and information to service users and their families.
• Adopt a holistic approach aimed at enhancing the quality of life, health, and social well-being of all persons within the service area.
• Promote independence, self-reliance, self-determination, and empowerment with persons in their environment, with families and local groups.
• Make it possible for service users to advocate for their own needs, or where appropriate advocate on behalf of service users.

Hours of work: Full Time

Requirements:

Applicants must by the closing date of application have the following:

• Be registered in the Social Work Register maintained by the Social Work Registration Board maintained at CORU (or have entitlement to be registered and obtain registration prior to appointment).
• Maintain live annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.
• Must have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and professional ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

In Return:

• Rate of pay: €43,083 per hour

Successful candidates may need to apply for an Access NI Certificate with Staffline regardless if you already have a valid certificate. It will be a cost of between £18 - £33 depending on clearance level.

If you are interested and available for this position, please upload your CV to the link or contact Coleen O'Hara - coleen.ohara@staffline.co.uk

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