Children's Social Care offers a range of teams and services to support children, young people and families to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. Our teams include social care practitioners, social workers and support workers.

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We use a child-centred practice model. All staff are offered training and support to embed this into their work with children and their families.

Our teams include:

• the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), who work with health and police colleagues to quickly help or refer vulnerable children to the right service
• assessment teams, who assess children and provide short term interventions where appropriate
• the out of hours team, who help children and families in crisis outside of normal working hours
• fostering teams, including recruitment, assessment and training of new carers or assessments of private fostering arrangements
• a child health and disability team
• a team who works with young people between 16 and 25, who are due to leave care
• a family assessment and contact service
• Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service, who work with children and young people who have committed an offence

Along with our employee benefits and support, we offer social care staff:

• full induction with online and in-person training, shadowing, and mentoring
• a safe, manageable workload with continuous support
• continued professional development (CPD) with training and reflective practice, in partnership with Bournemouth University
• regular 1:1 supervision and reviews for professional growth
• a one-off £3,000 payment (pro-rata) for experienced social workers