Job title: Duty Social Worker
Location: Stafford
Salary: Grade 9 £32,234 – 36,992
Contract: Permanent – 37 hrs full time, Flexible working – we are open to requests
Our team
We have a great opportunity to join the Stafford Safeguarding Team as a Duty Social Worker. We’re a great team, headed up by Dorne Collinson and many of us have worked here at Stafford for a long time. We stay because we feel supported by our colleagues, we feel empowered to do our very best and we know the work we do really makes a difference to our community.
Our approach
In Staffordshire, we have embedded a new restorative practice model. We want to improve the lives of all children and young people, using a whole system approach enabling children to be happy, healthy and safe. And we do this by supporting families to enable children to remain at home wherever possible. We confidently manage risks and are supported to be courageous and ambitious as an organisation. Restorative approaches are widely accepted as a highly effective way of achieving better outcomes for children, young people and their families.
What you’ll do
As a qualified Social Worker, with a minimum of 12 months post qualification experience you’ll have experience working with children and families and you’ll be committed to supporting children to remain with their families. You will also have experience with child protection and Section 47 enquires and process around the safeguarding procedures. You’ll be involved in completing initial visits, child social work assessments and section 47 enquiries. You’ll manage Initial visits, child in need and child protection assessments and do direct work with children. Your involvement will be as a short-term intervention and you’ll do the initial enquiries of Section 47 and child protection however most of your assessments will be child in need. And lastly, your role will include care proceedings work and some work with looked after children mainly this will include private proceedings and requests for Section 7 and Section 37 reports.
What you’ll have
You’ll be a great communicator so building those key relationships with children, families and other professionals will come naturally to you. You’ll also be committed to striving for the best outcomes for children. We work using a restorative practice model so it would be great if you have experience of this but if you don’t, we’ll train you in this approach.
How we’ll support you
Making sure you are well supported and given the opportunity to develop is a high priority at Staffordshire. That’s why we offer an excellent staff development programme including a new aspiring team managers programme and we support colleagues through regular supervision including ¼ Group Supervision. We also offer other employed benefits such as:
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Closing date for applications is : Sunday 9 May 2021
For further information about this position, please contact laura.glover@staffordshire.gov.uk
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This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.