Oct 20, 2026 Nov 9, 2026

Advanced Social Worker – Children’s

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Oct 20, 2026 Nov 9, 2026

GR8 Recruitment Advanced Social Worker – Children’s

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1. Take a lead role in multi-agency decision making to develop strong and effective working partnerships with other agencies and services involved with children and families. Chair complex meetings which may include strategy meetings, fostering and adoption panels and core planning meetings and reviews to ensure positive outcomes for young people.

2. Leverage professional knowledge and practice using accredited assessment tools to gather an analyse complex information from a variety of sources enabling the development of comprehensive assessments and informed recommendations.

3. Drive the delivery of high-quality social work services to children and families to ensure the welfare of children is safeguarded and they are protected in accordance with the legal and statutory obligations of Jersey Children’s Service.

4. Guide, coach and mentor team members to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, ensuring adherence to relevant legislation codes of conduct, policies and procedures ensuring the criteria for continuing professional registration is fulfilled.

5. Lead the induction and training activities for ASYE’s who will be based in the team. Where required, take the role of practice educator for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.

6. Holistically assess, develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people and their parents/carers. Wherever possible, promote children’s individual views and wishes to support their rights to control their own lives and to make informed choices about the services they receive.

7. Provide clear, accurate and appropriate, communication to service users and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work team including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary, to establish and maintain the

trust and confidence of service users and carers.

8. Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adhere to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and take responsibility for maintaining and improving personal knowledge and skills in order to ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled and that members of the public and other professionals have confidence in the service.

9. Create and maintain clear and accurate records to ensure that all relevant information is held as required by established procedures and best practice and in line with data protection, confidentiality, disclosure and consent policies, always bearing in mind that such documents may be disclosable for the purpose of Serious Case Reviews, external inquiry and inspection, and to the Royal Court in respect of civil applications or in criminal proceedings associated with the protection of vulnerable individuals.

10. Provide management cover and decision making as delegated by Team Manager, including Out of Hours as first point of contact in situations of crisis requiring an immediate operational response to risk.

11. Have their practice recognised as exemplary and provide leadership and professional wisdom to their colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity. Develop and ensure best practice as professional lead in assigned teams.

Requirements

ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

Qualifications

Please state the level of education and professional qualifications and / or specific occupational training required.

A professional qualifica-tion in Social Work (e.g. Degree, Diploma or equiv-alent in Social Work).

Registered with the appropriate UK professional governing body i.e. the General Social Care Council and locally, must also register under the Health Care (Registration) (Jersey) Law 1995.

Knowledge

This relates to the level and breadth of practical knowledge required to do the job (e.g. the understanding of a defined system, practice, method or procedure).

Specialist knowledge in social work underpinned by theory and relevant practical experience.

An understanding of chil-dren’s & adult Safeguard-ing issues. Good under-standing of the manage-ment of risk and support-ing vulnerable children and families in the com-munity.

Understands how to as-sess and manage risk when making complex de-cisions that may be dis-puted in court.

Practical knowledge of as-

Knowledge of the range of services provided both within CYPES, Health and Community Services, by other States Departments and by private and voluntary sector providers

	sessing and arranging de-livery of social care pack-ages for caseload clients. Understanding of thera-peutic services, their ar-rangement and provision. Knowledge of mentoring social work students and new entrants. Practical understanding of legislation relating to their specialist area of social work, the general work-ings of civil courts and the conducting of police in-vestigations into related criminal activity. Understands how to maintain records according to confidentiality and data protection protocols.
Technical / Work-based Skills This relates to the skills specific to the job, e.g. language fluency, vehicle license etc.	Able to demonstrate a range of information tech-nology skills i.e. an ability to effectively use IT equipment and role criti-cal software.	Safeguarding certificated.
	Ability to attain Enhanced DBS clearance
General Skills/Attributes	Ability to work autono-
This relates to more general characteristics required to do the job effectively, e.g. effective written communication skills, ability to delegate, motivation or commitment etc.	mously, with the capacity for independent, responsi-ble, professional decision making, often whilst under considerable pressure. Organisational
	and administrative
	skills
	Ability to take on board complex facts or situa-tions requiring analysis,

interpretation and com-parison of a range of op-tions in order to arrive at a complex judgement.

Able to communicate calmly and clearly using a variety of media on sensitive and complex issues, including legisla-tion, often in emotive sit-uations.

Able to facilitate the in-volvement of a range of stakeholders (public and private sector) to deal ef-fectively with complex is-sues relating to vulnera-ble service users.

Able to follow policy and understand the implica-tions and ramifications for areas outside of their own area of responsibil-ity.

Highly resilient – good coping mechanisms for dealing with challenging, stressful and emotional situations involving vulnerable children and adults.

Experience

This is the proven record of experience and achievement in a field, profession or specialism.

This could include a minimum period of experience in a defined area of work if required by an external body (for example a period of post-qualification experience).

Providing a social work service in a community, mental health or hospital setting; discharging statu-tory social care functions on behalf of an organisa-tion.

Developing and imple-menting are packages.

Co-ordinating support services and advising

carers and families.

Negotiating services for vulnerable service users, including issues involving child protection, vulnera-ble adults, mental and physical health is-sues and bereavement.

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