Children’s Social Work, Emotional Health Triage Referral Co-Ordinator, West Berkshire

Children’s Social Work, Emotional Health Triage Referral Co-Ordinator, West Berkshire
Pay rate to £26.05 per hour
Contract role, Children's Safeguarding and Emotional Wellbeing

Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Children’s Emotional Health Triage Referral Co-Ordinator in the Newbury area.
Essential Requirements for this job

• You will need to have worked in Local Authority Safeguarding, this could be as a Family Support Worker, or in a MASH team. Or maybe you are a Newly Qualified Children’s Social Worker looking to gain paid employment at the end of your course?

• You will need to be local to West Berkshire – this is not a remote role

• You will need to be able to start at short notice – this is a a Contract role.

Duties:

• Log, process and coordinate multiagency information relating to referrals from parents, schools and other professionals.

• Respond to telephone and email enquiries, provide signposting support and explain the role of multiagency emotional health triage to colleagues, professionals and parents.

• Build effective working relationships with partner agencies to ensure prompt and effective information exchange.

• Use initiative to review referrals, provide appropriate signposting information and seek managerial support promptly where information raises concern.

• With managerial support, screen referrals for serious or urgent risk and escalate to specialist or safeguarding services where required.

• Provide accurate chronologies, records and analysis of information gathered.

• Record recommendations for next steps and communicate decisions promptly to the referrer or family.

• Monitor a child or young person’s outcomes 10–12 weeks after discussion and report back to partners.

• Attend weekly multiagency triage meetings, complete minutes and create action plans and liaise with parents and professionals to obtain relevant information for meetings and reviews.

• Assist with issuing action plans to parents or carers, referrers and services providing recommended support.

Please get in touch for more information.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to

• An easy registration process (all done online)

• Referral schemes and incentives

• Ongoing compliance managed for you

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

Please contact Graham Leatham on or email for more information.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager