NRPF Service Social WorkerHours: 35 per weekPay: 37.52Duration: 6 monthsWork Pattern: HybridWe are looking for Social Workers to join our NRPF Service to work collaboratively with Adults Social Care and Children’s Social Care, on NRPF cases, to ensure timely assessments and that effective support is identified and implemented to prevent homelessness and provide move on support into settled accommodation. As a Social Worker you role is to:
- To provide advice and information to NRPF residents who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
- To have a caseload of NRPF cases and provide specialist guidance and support to Housing Options Service and Social Care colleagues.
- To work with Legal Services, if required, to fully understand the duties and powers the Council has, as well as the limits of that support, on case-by-case basis.
- To support the resolution of immigration issues, working with legal representatives and the Home Office through NRPF Connect.
- To utilise the Councils housing contracts for emergency accommodation, and consider new alternative housing models, such as cross-subsidy housing models
- To support the review of Section 17 subsistence rates annually.
- To proactively work with asylum, refugee and domestic abuse agencies within the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and to represent the service at meetings.
You will be an experienced social worker able to work independently and to offer support to less experienced colleagues. You will have a commitment to building relationships with children, young people, and their care givers and using this approach to effect change.
You will ensure that services are efficiently and effectively provided, liaising as necessary with other Council Divisions, Health, Education, Police, voluntary and independent sector providers.
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