Children’s Social Worker, NRPF team, North West London

Children’s Social Worker, NRPF team, North West London Pay rate to £39.04 per hour  Contract role – No Recourse to Public Funds team across Children and Adult’s Services Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Children’s Social Worker in North West London. This is to work in a NRPF team – this sits within the First Response Team. 

• 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 exper...