Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Family Court Advisor to work full time for CAFCASS, based in Chelmsford, Essex.
The salary for this permanent Family Court Advisor job is up to £46,332 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide high quality early safeguarding and child protection advice, assessments and analysis to the Court on the needs and best interests of children subject to or involved in Family Proceedings.
- To ensure that the well-being and safety of the child is paramount throughout CAFCASS involvement in the case.
- To directly work with, or on behalf of children & families to achieve safe and positive outcomes for children, referring to other services where this will produce benefit.
- To provide high quality work with rapid throughput, combining increasingly productivity with quality of casework.
- To be fully engaged with CAFCASS policy that all cases must be allocated and to adopt a proportionate approach to work, assessing the needs of the case. In response to changing demands, the regulating mechanism will be the average time spent on cases, which is lower when demands are higher and vice versa.
- To carry out an advanced social work level case analysis of the child’s circumstances and to ensure this is updated if circumstances change, and for roles in CAFCASS Intake to provide advice to local teams based on initial case analysis.
- To provide advanced social work level advice and assist the Court to achieve a timely conclusion to proceedings and the best possible outcome for the child.
- To administer and comply with orders made by the Family Court as required and conduct the necessary enquiries in accordance with relevant legislation and Court Rules.
- To provide a clear child-focused plan of work in each case which is monitored and subject to ongoing review.
- To participate in training and development programmes in line with agreed individual personal development plans, taking responsibility for your continued professional development, learning and improvement.
- To work in a child-inclusive way at all times, emphasizing the voice of the child to the court and all parties to a case.
- To work in partnership with other parties, agencies and significant others for the child, putting the needs of the child first in all discussions and negotiations.
Requirements of this Family Court Advisor Job.
- Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
- Registered as Social Worker.
- Understanding of the SW legislation.
Contact:
This Family Court Advisor job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
