Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Salary: NJC Grade H1/H2 SCP 27-35 £38,220 - £46,142 per annum
Closing Date: Friday 9th January 2026 at 12 noon
Blackpool Children’s Services has been on an incredible journey. At the heart of this improvement has been our investment in social work practice and our social workers. Our shared sense of purpose is based upon the Blackpool Families Rock values, culture and practice principals and we are proud this was co‑produced with Blackpool’s children, young people, their families and our partnership agencies.
Supporting Our Children is all about ensuring children in our care receive an excellent parenting whatever setting they are living in with the same life chances as any other young person. In this service you will find an experienced and stable management team managing teams of Social Worker's including a Senior Social Worker.
The focus within the service is where you assess, review and support children and young people who live in long term care arrangements. This gives you the opportunity to get to know a young person and be part of their development and achievements looking to support them either to be reunified with family or a move through to independence.
Social workers within our Supporting Our Children teams are committed to supporting our children to have a great childhood and future outcomes. You will have a passion for being an advocate and corporate parent for the children in our care and committed to establishing longer term trusting relationships with them, and helping them to understand their unique life story.
For further information please contact Nicola Bonser - Team Manager on 07500 786411 / nicola.bonser@blackpool.gov.uk
This is a fantastic opportunity for qualified social workers to develop and continue their social work career and for newly qualified social workers looking to start their career.
At Blackpool we have structured career pathways, which start from the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, to becoming an experienced social worker and all the way up to Head of Service, so there is no journey too big or too small at Blackpool.
If you are a newly qualified social worker we have established ASYE programme offers:
* A high level of comprehensive support and supervision
* Phased insight to the work / caseload
* Hands‑on experience
* Competitive salary
* Supported days reflected training and practical mentoring supported by the Principal Social Worker and our Practice Development Team
Upon completion of your ASYE, we will continue to support you to enhance your social work skills to become an experienced social worker (H2 grade).
We are committed to ensure that you work with smaller numbers of children and families which allows you the time to build trusting relationships and to focus on undertaking quality child centred Social Work. You will have the time to focus on the child as well as yourself, your own development and career ambitions.
What we offer
* Pay: our salary offer is strong and candidates who are recruited from the same or similar role may be eligible for a salary match within the above salary banding
* Genuine flexible working: family-friendly patterns such as flexible start/finish times and state of the art technology support, so you can spend some time working from home.
* Small teams, clear line management and practice development support
* Caseloads: they’re going down, they’re manageable, varied and appropriate to your role.
* Easy and regular access to the senior leadership team & Principal Social Worker
* Social Work England registration fee is paid
* 26 days’ annual leave (rising to 28 after 5 yrs & 32 days after 10 yrs)and the option to buy an additional 5 days on top of that, via salary sacrifice.
* Encouragementto take your TOIL back – we mean it!
* Supervision: our strengthened supervision policy supports you to build a trusting relationship with your manager.
* Leadership is ‘good’ and ‘stable’– DfE apppinted Independent Commissioner.
* Career developmentis focused on supporting your development.
* Relocation support up to £8,000
* Blackpool Council Staff benefit scheme: Social Work Benefits and Diversity | Next Step Blackpool
* Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through challenging times e.g. with free counselling, financial or legal advice.
* Mental Health First Aiders that are here for you
* Principal Social Worker Best Practice Awards are our way of saying ‘thank you’ to our amazing and committed staff.
It all adds up to an exciting package.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the filtering of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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