Children's Advanced Social Worker

Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership; Tamworth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership seeks an Advanced Social Worker for its Children in Care team. This role involves mentoring social workers, managing complex cases, and collaborating with various agencies to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. Ideal candidates will hold a relevant qualification and possess experience in child welfare and case management.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing complex cases and Care Proceedings.
• UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Support and coach social workers, focusing on quality practice.
• Manage complex child allocations and day-to-day care management.
• Facilitate team supervision and ensure performance metrics are met.

Skills

Mentoring

Support Coordination

Restorative Practices

Multi-Agency Collaboration

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

As an Advanced Social Worker in the Children in Care team you’ll :

• be key in the support and coaching you’ll help us to provide to our Social Workers.
• encourage and ensure that there’s 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 Children in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager.
• 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.

The Ideal Candidate

You'll be a:

• Qualified Social Worker withpost 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.

Interviews will take place week commencing 16th June 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.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a GoldAward Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why 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.