Child and Family Practitioner Social Worker

The Lighthouse is passionate about challenging the current response to children who have been sexually abused in North Central London and wider through multidisciplinary, child-centred ways of working, improving health and well-being of the child and their carers, and ensuring a holistic response through the criminal justice process. If you want to be part of changing how social workers respond to child victims of CSA, we want to hear from you. If you are ready to develop your expertise in complex safeguarding, multidisciplinary working and interventions that support children's recovery from sexual abuse, this exciting social work opportunity will enable you to be part of a unique and influential service building on best practice for children who have been sexually abused in the UK., The role will be within the Case Management team which is a busy, fast paced and responsive team made up of child and family practitioners who are social workers and/or ChISVA's. The team is the first point of contact for professionals, children and their carers and is responsible for ensuring the seamless journey through the lighthouse services whilst working closely with professional colleagues in the community. The role involves supporting our duty system; offering advice to children, carers and professionals around referrals, ensuring safeguarding oversight and risk management at the referral stage and ensuring that safeguarding concerns have been escalated.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing), We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.