Frontline Social Worker - Early Help & Safeguarding HUB (EHASH)

Frontline Social Worker - Early Help & Safeguarding HUB (EHASH)

• Location: Rochdale, Greater Manchester

• Authority: Rochdale Borough Council (Children's Services)

• Pay Rate: £39.00 per hour (Umbrella)

• Contract: Full-Time Locum Assignment

• Working Pattern: Hybrid working arrangements

Are you a skilled Children's Social Worker who excels in fast-paced triage, multi-agency partner liaison, and strengths-based early intervention?

Rochdale Borough Council is recruiting an experienced Social Worker to join their Early Help and Safeguarding HUB (EHASH). Offering £39.00 per hour, this role puts you at the front door of Children's Social Care as a primary decision-maker, ensuring families receive the right support at the right time to avoid escalation to specialist services.

EHASH social workers act as the first point of contact for all incoming safeguarding and support referrals across Rochdale. You will review multi-agency intelligence, offer expert direction on next steps, and deliver informal advice and coaching to multidisciplinary colleagues.

• Front-Door Triage & Decision-Making: Review incoming contacts, analyze multi-agency information, and apply sound, proportionate thresholds regarding need and risk.

• Partner Collaboration & Coaching: Support referring agencies through skilled conversations, offering direction, signposting, and informal advice/supervision across a multidisciplinary HUB.

• Locality Liaison: Work closely with locality leads to identify community-based early help solutions and prevent unnecessary escalation to statutory services.

• Creative Solution-Focused Practice: Think creatively and proportionately about how families can be supported through early help frameworks and local partner networks.

• Qualifications & SWE: Recognised Social Work qualification and active registration with Social Work England (SWE).

• Front-Door Expertise: Significant post-qualifying experience in Children's Statutory Services (specifically MASH, EHASH, Duty & Assessment, or Triage teams).

• Threshold Mastery: Proven ability to make robust, proportionate decisions at pace while applying statutory risk frameworks.

• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills with a coaching mindset to guide multi-agency partners effectively.

• Competitive Rate: £39.00 per hour.

• High-Impact Front Door Role: Play a pivotal role in shaping early intervention and family support outcomes across Rochdale.

• Supportive Environment: Work within a collaborative, solution-focused team.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations

qualifications

university

education

BA in social work