Consultant Social Worker - Front Door

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Warwick; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Warwickshire County Council is seeking a Consultant Social Worker for the Family Connect Team. In this role, you will enhance the lives of vulnerable children and families through supervision and professional guidance. The role includes mentoring team members and making critical decisions concerning the welfare of local community members.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Supportive management team

Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee

Volunteering & Wellbeing Day

Refer a Friend package

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification
• Passionate about achieving better outcomes for children.
• Experience in team mentoring and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Be a role model for good social work practice.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to less experienced team members.
• Conduct supervision meetings and support team members.

Skills

Supervision skills

Communication

Restorative practice

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

About the Team:

Here at Warwickshire County Council we put children and families at the heart of everything we do. We aim to ensure that Warwickshire’s children, young people, parents and carers receive the right help at the right time.

We are passionate about supporting communities and families to build on their strengths and relationships and find their own solutions.

We are doing great work here and we need great people to join us to continue to improve the lives of local children and their families.

We are looking to recruit experienced and passionate social workers to undertake the role of Consultant Social Worker in our Family Connect.

The Family Connect is the point for all referrals where members of the community and professionals refer children and young people living in Warwickshire where they are worried about their safety and welfare. This is an office-based post with no face-to-face work with children and families. There is also the requirement to support and supervise Children and Families Advisors. The post will offer you the opportunity:

• To make informed threshold decisions at a managerial level using the threshold documents and protocols agreed by all partner agencies.
• To manage information sharing from all agencies, recording the concerns on appropriate data bases, analysing both historical and current concerns to achieve a timely response adhering to timescales.
• To ensure that an appropriate pathway is followed for on-going intervention.
• To provide consultation and advice to agency referrers about thresholds, appropriate actions and outcomes and signpost as appropriate.
• To supervise alternatively qualified staff

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education. Find out why we are good Ofsted.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

About the Role:

We are recruiting for the role of Consultant Social Worker in our Family Connect Team covering Warwickshire for a permanent position.

Our Consultant Social Worker in the Family Connect will:

• Be a role model for good social work practice.
• Provide mentoring, coaching support and practice expertise to less experienced team members.
• Passion for achieving better outcomes for vulnerable children and their families and this will be demonstrated through restorative practice.
• This role will support development into a management role in the future and the responsibilities of the role include conducting supervision meetings and supporting other members of the team, assigning and authorising work and providing management support.
• A comprehensive knowledge of the challenges associated with working with children and their families is essential.
• Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.

We are keen to receive applications from committed and experienced Social Workers. If you do not meet the essential criteria in relation to Enabling Others and Teaching and Assessing for Professional Practice (TAPP) you will be supported to complete within the first year of appointment.

Click here to download our Why work for Us Brochure

Key Requirements:

Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below:

Consultant Social Worker - Grade O

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 Family Connect on [e-mail]

Closing Date: 26.06.2025

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