Children with Disabilities Team - Experienced Social Worker
As an Experienced Social Worker within our Children’s with Disabilities Hub, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting children and young people with complex needs to thrive. This is a fast-paced, rewarding position where your professional insight and relationship-building skills will help deliver tailored interventions, safeguard vulnerable children, and empower families. You’ll be working closely with multi-agency partners, advocating for inclusive services, and driving positive outcomes through strength-based, child-centred practice. If you're ready to bring your experience and passion to a team that values impact, collaboration, and compassion, this is the role for you.
About us
At Cheshire East Council, we are resident, and partner focused with a vision to enable prosperity and wellbeing for all. People really are at the heart of everything we do and that starts with our incredible workforce. We promote a culture of high performance where people can aspire, thrive and flourish, where we strive to deliver best value in everything we do.
For us, success isn’t just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it together. We promote curiosity, excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.
We are values led and committed to wellbeing and inclusion for all, where our employees co-created our values of drive, integrity, respect and collaboration which inform all that we do.
We are proud to work for Cheshire East Council and believe you would be too!
Our practice model is restorative practice, which is relationship based, and trauma informed.
Join us on a meaningful journey in Children’s Social Care at Cheshire East Council
We’re on a meaningful journey in Children’s Social Care and we’d love for you to be part of it. Joining us means becoming part of a supportive, forward-thinking team that’s passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and young people. Everything we do is about putting them first, helping them grow, thrive and reach their full potential so they can build brighter futures.
If this sounds like the kind of impact you want to make, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Come and join us in shaping positive change for our young people.
About the role:
1. Responsible for managing a complex caseload of children and young people with disabilities, ensuring their needs are assessed and met through tailored support plans.
2. Works collaboratively with families, carers, education providers, health professionals, and other agencies to deliver coordinated care.
3. Applies statutory frameworks and safeguarding procedures to protect vulnerable children and promote their welfare.
4. To undertake care proceeding and DOL applications.
5. Working with Children aged 0 – 18years subject to child in need, child protection, and cared for children, and young people through transition to adulthood.
6. Contributes to service development by identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and supporting continuous improvement.
7. Maintains accurate, timely records and prepares reports for court proceedings, reviews, and multi-agency meetings.
8. Operates within a strengths-based, child-centred approach that values inclusion, empowerment, and resilience.
This is just a snapshot of some of the exciting things you’ll be doing in the role, to find out more about the other key responsibilities of the role please view the attached job description.
About you:
9. You’ll be a qualified social worker with post-qualification experience, ideally within a children’s disability or safeguarding setting.
10. You’ll bring strong assessment and analytical skills, with the ability to manage risk and make sound decisions under pressure.
11. You’ll be confident in working with multi-agency teams and advocating for children’s rights and access to services.
12. You’ll have excellent communication skills and a compassionate, professional approach to building relationships with families.
13. You’ll be committed to continuous learning and reflective practice, with a drive to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
14. You’ll be registered with Social Work England and have a good understanding of relevant legislation and guidance.
15. You will be a trauma informed social worker who can demonstrate relationship-based practice within multi-disciplinary working groups.