Sarah Oshin

• As a social worker within a managed service within Bradford Children's Trust, I have been responsible for managing extremely complex cases where there has been drift and delay and, had to respond quickly to manage risk and make well informed decisions that ensure the safety and welfare of children and young people.
• Within this role I have been responsible for:
• Managing a very complex caseload within a long term team including Public and Private Law proceedings, child protection cases and children on a child in need plans.
• Working as part of a managed service who are responsible for turning around case work where there has been drift, delay and inadequate audits where children have not being safeguarded from significant harm through completing timely, thorough assessments and plans that effect change.
• Building positive relationships and effective communication with families from very diverse ethnic cultural backgrounds in a climate that is hostile towards social care.
• Being adaptive in communication, making best use of interpreters and the power of observation and taking responsibility to learn about different cultural contexts and understand what this means for children and young people.
• Working within a fragmented and hostile multiagency network and using appropriate challenge and excellent interpersonal and engagement skills to promote effective multiagency working.

• As a social worker within a managed service within North EastLincolnshire, I was responsible for managing extremely complex cases where there has been drift and delay and, had to respond quickly to manage risk and make well informed decisions that ensure the safety and welfare of children and young people.
• Within this role I have been responsible for:Managing a very complex caseload within a long term team including Public and Private Law proceedings, child protection cases and children on a child in need plans.
• Working as part of a managed service who are responsible for turning around case work where there has been drift, delay and inadequate audits where children have not being safeguarded from significant harm through completing timely, thorough assessments and plans that effect change.
• Building positive relationships and effective communication with families from very diverse ethnic cultural backgrounds in a climate that is hostile towards social care.
• Working within a fragmented and hostile multiagency network and using appropriate challenge and excellent interpersonal and engagement skills to promote effective multiagency working.

• As an advanced practitioner in the team, I have been responsible for holding a complex case load of children, young people and families and mentoring and supervising other social workers in the team and as practice educator, have supported the development of social worker's in training, (SWITS)

• Core aspects of this role included:
• Mentoring and supporting newly qualified social workers and social workers in training.
• Quality assurance and audit activity to identify good practice and areas of development and being able to analyse findings.
• Handling all aspects of case management including care proceedings, child protection, safeguarding and reunification.
• Assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing across diverse cases ranging from neglect, sexual abuse and sexual and criminal exploitation.
• Initiating and attending necessary court proceedings, completing comprehensive, accurate court reports and plans within restrictive timeframes.
• Providing crisis intervention through using a range of knowledge and skills and optimising multi agency work to ensure service users get the right support at the right time.
• Enabling change through excellent interpersonal skills, person centred and relationship based approaches to enable clients to understand problematic behaviour and make healthy, well informed choices to promote sustainable change.
• Understanding and utilising theory and research to inform best practice and taking responsibility for my own personal development needs.

• As an experienced member of the team, I was been responsible for holding a complex case load of children, young people and families and mentoring and supervising other social workers in the team and as practice educator, have supported the development of social worker's in training, (SWITS).
• Core aspects of my role included:
• Handling all aspects of case management including care proceedings, child protection, safeguarding and reunification.
• Assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing across diverse cases ranging from neglect, sexual abuse and sexual and criminal exploitation.
• Initiating and attending necessary court proceedings, completing comprehensive, accurate court reports and plans within restrictive timeframes.
• Providing crisis intervention through using a range of knowledge and skills and optimising multi agency work to ensure service users get the right support at the right time.
• Enabling change through excellent interpersonal skills, person centred and relationship based approaches to enable clients to understand problematic behaviour and make healthy, well informed choices to promote sustainable change.
• Facilitated family therapy sessions between children, caregivers and siblings to remediate conflict and build healthy relationships.

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• As a Team Manager within a busy and oversubscribed service, I was responsible for managing a team of experienced practitioners, supporting their management and delivery of service within complex case loads, balancing this against the corporate demands and responsibilities of the service.
• Within this role I was responsible for:
• Establishing and managing a team of 10 frontline practitioners having undergone a service change, requiring a strong sense of leadership, a clear sense of direction and ability to motivate, instil confidence and up skill staff in the team.
• Recruitment and induction of new member of staff.
• Strong awareness of organisational culture and significant involvement in the planning and redesign of this within the service.
• Case management and ability to manage risk through having oversight over 150 open cases in the team through regular, reflective case supervision, quality assurance and case auditing.
• Reducing risk and promoting resilience and safety within case work through promoting quality intervention, robust multiagency working and effective safety planning linking with operational groups such as MARAC and MACE.
• Performance management having successfully being through a very lengthy process of capability with a member of the team and been able to raise standards of work significantly.
• Quality Assurance work, undertaking regular multiagency audits and being able to analyse findings to promote positive change.
• Taking on the lead parenting strategy role within the service involving the commissioning of funding to acquire training for practitioners across the service to improve and streamline the means in which parenting support is provided. This role has also improved the current provision offered to teen parents to ensure the right service is involved at the right time.
• Effectively managing a budget that ensures the needs of the teams and the demands of families within the locality.
• Designing and developing training to deliver across children's services to instill consistent, quality practice to children, young people and families.
• Having an opportunity to be involved in project management as a means to improve employee experience, well being and resilience within children's services
• Understanding and utilising a range of theories and models to promote both well being, resilience and performance with staff in the team.

• As a senior practitioner within a targeted support service I was responsible for holding a complex case load of young people and families where sexual and criminal exploitation were assessed as being of high risk.
• Within the role I was responsible for;
• Managing high risk cases where risk of child exploitation is assessed as high, working with a range of other professionals to reduce risk and disrupt patterns of concern.
• Working with young offenders who have finished a custodial sentence as part of offering support in integrating young people back into the community and offering restorative practice within familial relationships.
• Robust assessment and collaborative safety planning designed to raise victim awareness, reduce opportunity of harm and disrupt the activity of perpetrators.
• Commitment to young people and families in flexibly working in a way that meets their needs in an intensive and round the clock manner.
• Creative, relationship based direct work with hard to reach young people and families, establishing trust, being determined to break down barriers to ultimately engage, support and reduce risk within the context of the family.

• Core aspects of my role included:
• Handling all aspects of case management including care proceedings, child protection, safeguarding and reunification.
• Assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing across diverse cases ranging from neglect, sexual abuse and sexual and criminal exploitation.
• Initiating and attending necessary court proceedings, completing comprehensive, accurate court reports and plans within restrictive timeframes.
• Providing crisis intervention through using a range of knowledge and skills and optimising multi agency work to ensure service users get the right support at the right time.
• Enabling change through excellent interpersonal skills, person centred and relationship based approaches to enable clients to understand problematic behaviour and make healthy, well informed choices to promote sustainable change.
• Facilitated family therapy sessions between children, caregivers and siblings to remediate conflict and build healthy relationships.

• As a care officer within a local authority children's residential home, I was responsible for Supporting the role and responsibilities of corporate parenting team through supporting some of the most vulnerable children within the local authority.