Senior Social Worker Children in Care Durham

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work for Durham County Council. This is a temporary Senior Social Worker role within the Children in Care Service. In this role you will benefit from a competitive hourly rate of up to £32 per hour umbrella, dependent on experience whilst having the opportunity to work in a professional and vibrant environment. This is a non-case holding role for a social worker to support the service by completing assessments (Placement with Parent assessments and Child and Family assessments) and to support the service as a duty role in terms of responding to duty crisis and helping visit children who are in unregulated provisions and need an increased amount of visits. The successful candidate will be based in Pity Me next to the Arnison Centre. The Council do support workers to work at home should they wish to, however the successful candidate for this post will need to prepared to visit children as and when needed, given the speciality of this role so will need to be office based each day. For this position you will need hold a recognised social work qualification and be Social Care England registered. Furthermore, you will have at least two years post qualifying experience in statutory childcare setting, to support your ability for this role. If you are interested in this position or know someone who is then please call Sophie Donkin at Eden Brown on (phone number removed) or email Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer. Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number (phone number removed). Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free