Advanced Children's Social Worker
Staffordshire County Council,
Location: Tamworth
Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice. This is an exciting opportunity that offers just that.
If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, this could be just for you.
We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.
A career progression framework is in place to support you, which also includes:
* Practice Educator Programme
* Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes
* Aspiring learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership
Main Responsibilities
* Key in the support and coaching our Social Workers.
* Encourage and ensure that there is a focus upon quality of practice but also on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.
* Manage a complex allocation of children.
* Share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings, complex Child in Need and Core Group meetings.
* Coordinate and facilitate team group supervision.
* Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.
* Ensure the team works towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.
* Mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers.
* Be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team.
* Provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.
* Lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.
The Ideal Candidate
* Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience.
* Registered with Social Work England.
* Current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
Above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time, with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.
Contact & Recruitment
For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact Heather Kliner, Team Manager on email heather.kliner1@staffordshire.gov.uk. Interviews will be held week commencing 19th January 2025. Our recruitment process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
Equal Opportunities
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities. As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers, we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
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