Social Worker Cover Letter Example

Every child and family assessment I have completed this year has met the 45 working day timescale, across a caseload of 18 families. I am a social worker registered with Social Work England, applying for the Social Worker, Children and Families post at Northgate Children's Services.

I see every child within the visit timescale set in their plan and record each visit in Liquidlogic within 24 hours. I chair review meetings with schools, health visitors and parents, and each one ends with written actions and a named owner. Reports for child protection conferences go in two days before the meeting, so families and partners have time to read them. When too many families were missing reviews, I began sending reminders and offering evening slots, and missed meetings fell from one in five to one in twenty.

Northgate's limit on caseloads is what drew me, because direct work with children is the first thing to slip when numbers climb. Before qualifying I spent two years at Tyne Family Trust supporting 20 families with routines and school attendance and running a weekly group for 12 parents, and I saw how much changes when someone sits with a family regularly. Good supervision shaped my own practice, and I would expect to supervise students on placement for your team, as I do now with a student social worker on a 100-day placement.

Should you shortlist me, a written assessment exercise is a fair test of how I record and analyze, and I am glad to sit one. How your locality teams share duty weeks is what I would most like to ask at interview.