Job Info
Salary: £42,003 - £54,533 (market supplements included)
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working 37 hours per week
Location: Durban House, Bogor Regis with Countywide travel
Please note, we are reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, so we welcome your application at your earliest convenience.
We are committed to improving our services for the children and families we support in West Sussex. In May 2023 Ofsted Inspectors praised West Sussex County Council’s Children’s Services for its ‘relentless approach to improving practice,’ giving the service an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, with ‘good’ judgements for children in care and leadership and management. The judgements on children needing help and protection and children leaving care are they ‘require improvement to be good’.
Inspectors recognised the ‘strong, determined and cohesive leadership team’ who have made significant improvements since 2019 and their commitment and focus to make further improvements.
For further information about us and about working in Children’s Social Care at West Sussex County Council, please visit .
Working for us
We offer small practice teams of Social Workers managed by a Team Manager and supported by Child & Family Workers as well as additional flexible administrative support from Coordinators embedded within the service.
We provide regular group supervision and peer learning alongside specialist roles within the team to focus on the most vulnerable children. As a Social Worker, you’ll have a minimum of 5 CPD and training days per year with access to excellent learning and development provisions such as Research in Practice and Community Care Inform, and Social Work England fees paid.
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:
1. an excellent local government pension scheme
2. generous holiday entitlement of up to 29 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
3. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
4. maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
5. volunteering opportunities
6. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
7. a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
8. health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans