Childrens Advanced Social Work Practitioner

Sheffield City Council; Sheffield; Presencial; GBP 42 000 - 52 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Reflective supervision

Structured development programme

Mentoring opportunities

Flexible working

Resumo da oferta

Sheffield City Council is seeking an Advanced Social Work Practitioner to lead high-risk cases, mentor colleagues and drive service improvement. You will work autonomously on Child in Need, Child Protection and care proceedings, using Signs of Safety to inform robust assessments and child-centred plans.

You will chair multi-agency meetings, complete safeguarding investigations, prepare court reports, and support staff through transitions, while promoting reflective practice and professional

Qualificações

• Substantial experience managing complex high-risk children’s social work cases with autonomy.
• Strong assessment, analytical and evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Experience with Child in Need, Child Protection and care proceedings, including report writing and presenting evidence.
• Confident multi-agency working and ability to build relationships with children, families, carers and professionals.
• Sound understanding of relevant legal, statutory and regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to mentor, support and influence colleagues; commitment to reflective practice.

Responsabilidades

• Chair multi-agency meetings and coordinate safeguarding investigations.
• Prepare reports and evidence for court proceedings.
• Support children and families through important transitions.
• Provide advice, guidance and support to junior colleagues; contribute to quality assurance and practice improvement projects.

Conhecimentos

Autonomy in complex cases

Assessment and analysis

Child in Need, Child Protection, care

Multi-agency collaboration

Legal framework knowledge

Mentoring

Reflective practice

Formação académica

Social Work degree

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Make your experience count for Sheffield’s children and families.

We’re looking for an experienced and confident social work practitioner who is ready to take the next step in their career. This is an opportunity to combine high-quality frontline practice with practice leadership, mentoring and service improvement – while keeping children and young people at the heart of every decision.

As an Advanced Social Work Practitioner, you’ll work autonomously with some of our most complex and high-risk cases, including Child in Need, Child Protection and care proceedings. Using relationship-based practice and the Signs of Safety framework, you’ll build meaningful relationships with children, young people and families, undertake robust assessments, develop evidence-based plans and use your professional judgement to help children stay safe and achieve the best possible outcomes.

You’ll work closely with families and partner agencies, chair multi-agency meetings, complete safeguarding investigations and statutory work, prepare reports and evidence for court, and support children and families through important transitions. You’ll be trusted to make sound, child-centred decisions in challenging circumstances and to ensure plans progress within statutory timescales.

This is more than a caseholding role. You’ll be an exemplar of excellent social work practice, co-working complex cases and providing advice, guidance and support to social workers, including newly qualified colleagues. You’ll also have opportunities to support social work students, contribute to quality assurance and lead agreed practice-improvement projects.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a qualified and experienced social worker who can demonstrate:

• substantial experience of managing complex and high-risk children’s social work cases with a high degree of autonomy;
• strong assessment, analytical and evidence-based decision-making skills;
• experience of Child in Need, Child Protection and care proceedings, including report writing and presenting professional evidence;
• confident multi-agency working and the ability to build constructive relationships with children, families, carers and professionals;
• a sound understanding of relevant legal, statutory and regulatory frameworks;
• the ability to mentor, support and positively influence the practice of colleagues; and
• a commitment to reflective practice, continuous professional development and consistently high professional standards.

What we offer

We recognise the demands of advanced social work practice and the importance of supporting experienced practitioners to thrive. You’ll benefit from monthlyreflective supervision, a structured development programme focused on current practice and shared learning, and opportunities to develop your mentoring and Practice Educator skills.

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. Read about the new job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council.

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