Children's Social Worker

Staffordshire County Council; Tamworth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate social workers to join their Assessment and Staying Together team. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable children and families. You will be responsible for coordinating child plans, conducting assessments, and ensuring children's voices are heard. With a strong focus on professional development and support, this position provides a rewarding opportunity to grow your career while making a difference. If you are dedicated to safeguarding and supporting families, this could be the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Career progression framework

Access to rewards and benefits

Flexible work-life balance

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with experience in safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children.
• Registered with Social Work England and holds a current UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Work with families from Child In Need to Care Proceedings.
• Complete statutory duties in coordinating child’s plans and investigations.
• Refer into centralised services for specialist support.

Skills

Social Work

Safeguarding

Working with Vulnerable Children

Assessment Skills

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Registered with Social Work England

Job description

We have an exciting new opportunity for a social worker in our Assessment and Staying Together team based in Tamworth.

Life-changing work. Game changing support. 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. 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. A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:

1. Practice Educator Programme.
2. 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. For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire. Hear more from Michael, on what it's like to work here!

Main Responsibilities
You will:

1. Be working with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need through to the conclusion of Care Proceedings.
2. Work closely with your colleagues in Early Help, Children in Care, Care Leavers, and Children with Disabilities Team.
3. Be responsible for completing the statutory duties in coordinating the child’s plan, reviewing and ensuring that our children are seen and heard.
4. Undertake section 47 investigations.
5. Undertake placement of children into Local Authority care, when it is agreed they can no longer remain at home.
6. Be responsible for the completion of both Private and Public law reports.
7. Be responsible for referring into our centralised services for specialist support/services.

The Ideal Candidate
You’ll need:

1. A qualified Social Worker.
2. Registered with Social Work England.
3. Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle.
4. Ideally have completed their ASYE before starting this role.

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.

For an informal chat about the roles, please contact: Anita Statham at [e-mail]. Interviews will be held on week commencing 5 May.

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.

Our benefits: 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. In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire.

Our recruitment process: 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 backgrounds and communities. As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application 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.