Social Worker Team Leader

Job Title:
Social Worker Team Leader

Location: Blanchardstown,
Dublin.

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time 35 hours per week, pensionable role

Salary & Benefits: HSE salary scales + pension + excellent benefits

Social Worker Team Leader –
Blanchardstown, Dublin

Ready to lead a team and make a meaningful
difference for children and families?

Are you an experienced Social Worker
ready to step into a supportive team leadership role within children’s
disability services?

Excel Healthcare are recruiting a permanent
Social Worker Team Leader to join a highly experienced Children’s
Disability Network Team (CDNT) based in Blanchardstown.

This is a very well-supported team,
with a Principal Social Worker on the CDNT to provide professional
leadership, consultation and supervision, alongside the support of a
long-established multidisciplinary team.

This is a permanent, pensionable role with
strong supports including regular supervision, protected CPD and clear
opportunities for career development. As Team Leader, you will combine high-quality
frontline practice with team leadership, contributing to service
development, quality improvement and a consistent, family-centred approach
across the CDNT.

Job Purpose

As Social Worker Team Leader, you
will provide high-quality social work assessment and intervention to children
and young people (0–18 years) with disabilities and their families. You will
manage a complex caseload, undertake comprehensive psychosocial assessments,
develop and review support plans, and ensure practice is strengths-based,
rights-based and family-centred.

You will work closely with the CDNT’s multidisciplinary
team (e.g. Speech & Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy,
Physiotherapy, Psychology and others as available) to deliver coordinated
supports and safe, integrated care. You will provide day-to-day guidance to
social work staff (and/or students, as required), support consistent recording
and governance standards, and contribute to clinical decision-making—backed by
the Principal Social Worker for professional supervision, consultation
and practice development.

This role offers an excellent opportunity
to lead within a supportive service, strengthen social work practice within a
CDNT, and contribute to improving outcomes for children and families.

Role summary:

·        
Provide social work
assessment and intervention to children and families, including complex
safeguarding, welfare and psychosocial needs.

·        
Provide leadership and
support to the social work function on the CDNT, including guidance on best
practice, prioritisation, and consistent, high-quality recording.

·        
Work under the direction
of the Children’s Disability Network Manager (CDNM) and in partnership with the
Principal Social Worker, contributing to service planning, governance
and quality improvement.

·        
Act as a key member of the
interdisciplinary team to deliver an integrated, coordinated, family-centred
service and strong communication across disciplines.

·        
Support and empower
parents/carers through information, advocacy and signposting, and contribute to
group work/parent programmes as appropriate.

·        
Prepare high-quality
reports and documentation; liaise with Tusla (where relevant), schools and
community agencies; and coordinate onward referrals in line with agreed
pathways.

·        
Represent the service at
relevant meetings, case conferences and governance forums, supporting safe
decision-making and collaborative risk management.

You will work with:

·        
Children and young people
with disabilities and their families

·        
Children's Disability
Network Team (CDNT) multidisciplinary colleagues

·        
Children's Disability
Network Manager and the Principal Social Worker

·        
Staff across educational
settings (preschools, primary/secondary and special schools)

·        
Relevant statutory and
community agencies supporting children and families (e.g. Education, Health,
Social, Community and Voluntary Services)

Essential Requirements

• Professional
  qualification in Social Work recognised for CORU registration
• CORU registration as
  a Social Worker
• Significant
  post-qualification experience in children’s services, disability, family
  support, safeguarding and/or complex needs (team-leading experience
  desirable)
• Demonstrated
  ability to work in a strengths-based, trauma-informed and rights-based way
  with children and families, including experience with safeguarding/welfare
  concerns and interagency working
• Experience completing
  comprehensive assessments and producing clear, high-quality reports and
  care/support plans
• Evidence of
  leadership in practice, including supporting colleagues and/or students,
  contributing to service development and promoting quality and governance
  standards
• Excellent
  communication and teamwork skills
• Full driving licence
  and access to a car (as required for community visits)

Benefits

·        
Competitive HSE salary
scales and annual leave entitlement in line with the HSE

·        
Employee Assistance
Programme

Pension Scheme and Illness Benefit

Flexible working hours

Maternity/Paternity
Leave

Free
onsite parking 

How to Apply:

If you are an experienced Social Worker
ready for a rewarding leadership opportunity within a supportive CDNT, apply
today! Contact Charlene Cooke by email at ccooke@excelrecruitment.com
or by phone at +353 89 9455139