Consultant Social Worker

Warwickshire County Council; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 52,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Supervision policy

Social Work England registration fee

Volunteering & Wellbeing Day

Refer a Friend scheme

Job summary

Warwickshire County Council’s Family Connect team is recruiting a permanent part-time Consultant Social Worker to provide countywide coverage from an office base in Warwick. This senior practitioner role is designed for an experienced social worker who can model best practice, offer professional leadership and support colleagues.

You will role-model high-quality safeguarding, mentor Social Workers and deliver restorative, strengths-based social work across multi-agency partnerships, with the

Qualifications

• Hold a recognised professional Social Work qualification and maintain current registration with Social Work England.
• Bring significant experience of safeguarding children and working with families, including practice within complex and high-risk contexts.
• Demonstrate confident, proportionate and well-informed decision-making using Warwickshire’s Spectrum of Support to understand thresholds.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model for high-quality, reflective and ethical safeguarding practice in line with the Warwickshire Practice Framework.
• Provide mentoring, coaching and specialist practice guidance to Social Workers and Child and Family Advisors.
• Demonstrate commitment to improving outcomes for children and families through restorative, strengths-based and relationship-led social work practice.
• Support day-to-day operational activity, including: overseeing and screening, allocating and authorising work, escalating safeguarding concerns to MACPT.
• Facilitate group supervision and targeted one-to-one sessions to promote reflection, learning and accountability.
• Apply strengths-based and relational understanding of risk and work restoratively with families to safeguard children during crises.

Skills

Professional Social Work qualification

Social Work England registration

Safeguarding experience

Decision-making

Multi-agency collaboration

Restorative practice

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

About Warwickshire County Council

At Warwickshire County Council, children and families are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to ensuring that children, young people, parents and carers receive the right help at the right time. Our approach focuses on strengths-based and restorative practice, supporting families and communities to build on their relationships and find their own solutions.

This is an exciting time to join Warwickshire as we continue embedding our Families First approach. Our locality-based, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams work closely with partners across Health, Police, Education and other services to support the whole family and build strong, effective partnerships.

If you are passionate about restorative and relationship-based Social Work practice and making a real difference to children and families, Warwickshire’s Children and Families Service is the place for you.

Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.

Our offer to you includes:

• Supportive and visible managers, with a robust supervision policy focused on wellbeing and manageable workloads
• Full reimbursement of the annual Social Work England registration fee
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day, in addition to generous annual leave and an additional Christmas closure day
• Access to a Refer a Friend scheme for eligible roles (terms and conditions apply)

About the Service – Family Connect

About Family Connect

Family Connect launched on 3 March 2025, replacing Warwickshire’s Children and Families Front Door as part of the Families First transformation programme. It provides a single, consistent point of contact for all safeguarding-related enquiries and referrals for children and young people living in Warwickshire.

The service brings together Children’s Social Care, information and advice services, and key partner agencies within two closely linked hubs:

• Triage Hub
• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) – a partnership including Warwickshire County Council, Warwickshire Police, the NHS and other key agencies such as Education and Probation.

This is an office-based role, with the potential for some home working following completion of induction. There is no direct face-to-face work with children and families; however, the role involves providing practice guidance and support to Social Workers and Child and Family Advisors across the service.

About the Role

We are excited to be recruiting a permanent part time Consultant Social Worker to join our dynamic Family Connect team, providing countywide coverage with an office base in Warwick. This is a pivotal senior practitioner role, well suited to an experienced social worker who can model best practice, provide professional leadership and support the development of others.

As a Consultant Social Worker, you will:

• Act as a role model for high-quality, reflective and ethical safeguarding practice in line with the Warwickshire Practice Framework
• Provide mentoring, coaching and specialist practice guidance to Social Workers and Child and Family Advisors
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to improving outcomes for children and families through restorative, strengths-based and relationship-led social work practice
• Support day-to-day operational activity, including:
  • Providing management oversight and screening direction
  • Allocating and authorising work
  • Escalating safeguarding concerns to the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) for threshold decisions and strategy discussions
• Facilitate group supervision and targeted one-to-one sessions that promote reflection, learning, accountability and professional development
• Apply a strengths-based and relational understanding of risk, safe uncertainty and risk management, recognising the complexity of children’s lived experiences and working restoratively with families to safeguard children during times of crisis

This role offers excellent preparation for future management progression, with meaningful exposure to leadership, decision-making and supervision within a Families First model of practice.

18.5 hours per week

Scale O - £49,817.00 - £51,928.00 (depending on experience) pro-rata based on a 37 hour full time equivalent

Click here to download our Why work for Us Brochure

Key Requirements

You will:

• Hold a recognised professional Social Work qualification and maintain current registration with Social Work England
• Bring significant experience of safeguarding children and working with families, including practice within complex and high-risk contexts
• Demonstrate confident, proportionate and well-informed decision-making, using Warwickshire’s Spectrum of Support to understand thresholds and ensure children are safe
• Work in a calm, reflective and approachable manner, inspiring confidence and trust with colleagues, partner agencies and families who contact Family Connect
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment, managing competing demands with resilience, strong organisation and professional curiosity
• Work effectively within multi-agency and multidisciplinary partnerships, sharing information and collaborating to improve outcomes for children and families
• Model restorative and strengths-based practice, supporting a culture of learning, reflection and continuous improvement across the service

If you are passionate about safeguarding, supporting the professional development of others and making high-quality, relationship-based decisions that promote the wellbeing and safety of children, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Join Warwickshire and help us continue to improve the lives of children and families across the county.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feelsvalued, included, safe, supported,andwelcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Click here to view the benefits at Warwickshire County Council.

Additional Information:

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

To discuss the role please contact Hannah Enekwe, Team Manager, [e-mail]

Closing Date: 10th November 2026

Interview Date: TBC

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact [e-mail] and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more