Staffordshire County Council
Advanced Children's Social Worker
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About the Role
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 and this is an exciting opportunity which 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, then this could be just for you.
We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.
Career Progression
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.
We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.
To see more on this visit: Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire
Location
You will be based Newcastle Under Lyme
About the Role
As an Advanced Social Worker at Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, you’ll be key in the support and coaching you’ll help us to provide to our Social Workers. You’ll encourage and ensure that there’s a focus upon quality of practice but also on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.
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As an Advanced Social Worker in the Assessment & Staying Together teams you’ll:
- 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 work 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
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Requirements
More generally, overall, our Advanced Social Workers need to be a:
- Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience
- Registered with Social Work England
- Have a current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
But 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 Information
For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact kayleigh.harold@staffordshire.gov.uk
Interviews
Interviews will be held week commencing 17th August
Our Recruitment Process
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