About the Team:
The Warwickshire Separated Children and Leaving Care Team is based in Warwick at Myton Park. We are a countywide service offering provision up to the age of 25. The Separated Children Team work (previously known as Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Team) with children aged 0-25 working to enable young people to settle and manage their asylum status.
Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.
Our Offer to you includes:
1. Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
2. Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
3. A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
4. We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
About the Role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a full time Social Worker within the Separated Children and leaving care team. The team is well established with very experienced and supportive staff. This is a full-time position to join our team based at Myton Park in Warwick.
In addition to social work duties in a child in care team this specialist role will entail: -
5. working with professionals across other agencies to provide support to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. I.e. solicitors/ navigating immigration
6. working with the young people from the day of their arrival through to leaving care.
7. working closely with partner agencies including Health, Police, Education, and the Home Office.
8. You will have experience of working with young people in care and/or care leavers and up to date knowledge of legislation.
9. The role entails travelling both within Warwickshire and out of county, therefore access to a vehicle will be required.
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Key Requirements:
Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specifications below:
10. Year 1Newly Qualified Social Worker - Grade J
11. Year 2Social Worker - Grade K
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information:
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the