Advanced Social Work Practitioner

Westfield Secondary School; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is advertising an Advanced Social Work Practitioner in the Leaving Care service in Sheffield. The role requires leading practice, independent casework with complex cases, mentoring junior social workers, and supervising personal advisers to promote best outcomes for children and young people.

You will work across safeguarding, risk assessments, care proceedings, and presenting evidence in court within a multi-agency environment, with a strong focus on professional

Qualifications

• Qualified senior social work practitioner with frontline statutory and leaving care experience.
• Experience in risk assessments and care proceedings.
• Ability to present evidence in court and supervise social work students.
• Experience in safeguarding investigations in a multi-agency setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced practice in leaving care to ensure high professional standards.
• Work autonomously with complex cases and mentor less experienced social workers.
• Provide supervision and development for personal advisors within the leaving care service.
• Contribute to safeguarding and multi-agency collaboration.

Skills

Autonomous work

Mentoring peers

Court proceedings experience

Risk assessment experience

Multi-agency safeguarding

Education

Social Work degree

Registered social worker

Job description

Advanced social work practitioner Leaving care service

Sheffield City Council

• Location: Sheffield
• Salary: £48,738-53,051 per year
• Employment Type: Permanent
• Job Type: Full-time

Posted: 7 hours ago

Job description

As an Advanced Social Work Practitioner in the Leaving Care service, you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest professional standards, conduct, and quality of social work practice. You will work autonomously with complex cases while also supporting and mentoring less experienced social workers, helping them to analyse and think through challenging situations to promote best practice and positive outcomes for children and young people. You will also provide supervision and development for a number of personal advisors within the leaving care service.

You'll need to be an experienced qualified senior social work practitioner with significant senior social worker frontline statutory and leaving care experience working autonomously undertaking complex casework, with extensive experience in completing risk assessments, care proceedings, presenting evidence in court, practice education of social work students and carrying out safeguarding investigations in a multi-agency environment.

Further information

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

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As an Advanced Social Work Practitioner in the Leaving Care service, you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest professional standards, conduct, and quality of social work practice. You will work autonomously with complex cases while also supporting and mentoring less experienced social workers, helping them to analyse and think through challenging situations to promote best practice and positive outcomes for children and young people. You will also provide supervision and development for a number of personal advisors within the leaving care service.

You'll need to be an experienced qualified senior social work practitioner with significant senior social worker frontline statutory and leaving care experience working autonomously undertaking complex casework, with extensive experience in completing risk assessments, care proceedings, presenting evidence in court, practice education of social work students and carrying out safeguarding investigations in a multi-agency environment.

Further information -

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.