Practice Supervisor - Children with Disabilities Service

Derbyshire County Council; Derby; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Derbyshire County Council as a Practice Supervisor in the Children with Disabilities Service. You will lead and supervise a dedicated team, ensuring effective case management and positive outcomes for children and families. This full-time position offers a starting salary of £43,055, annual increments, and ample professional development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme

Travel expenses cover

Discount on leisure centre memberships

Free car parking at most sites

In-house counselling service

Occupational health service

Physiotherapist sessions availability

Cycle to work scheme

Access to extensive training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Essential qualifications relevant to the role.
• Experience in building effective relationships with families.
• Experience enabling positive change in social work practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide practice supervision on all case work to social workers.
• Assist in the effective delivery of Children's Services Social Work.
• Champion systemic practice to improve children's outcomes.

Skills

Relationship Building

Flexible Social Work Practice

Education

Essential Qualifications

Job description

Practice Supervisor - Children with Disabilities Service

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Closing date: 15 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has come up for a practice supervisor post within the Children with Disabilities Service. The post is full-time, 37 hours per week in the Amber Valley team, based at The Hub, South Normanton.

The team has experienced and skilled groups of social workers and an excellent manager and is looking forward to welcoming an energetic and dynamic practice supervisor into each team.

We’re proud of our social work practice and commitment to children and their families in Derbyshire, our excellent supervision, systemic practice, manageable caseloads, innovative working, training opportunities and high aspirations for the children we work with.

What will you be doing?

• Providing practice supervision on all case work (group and one to one)
• Personal supervision to Social Workers within the team
• Undertaking a professional practice lead role within their designated area of service.
• Assisting the Team Manager in efficient and effective delivery of the Children’s Services Social Work Service.
• Demonstrating and championing systemic practice.
• Embedding Derbyshire’s operating model into all social work practice to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
  
  
  

What skills and experience do you need?

• Essential Qualifications (refer to job and person profile for more information).
• Experience of creating rapport and building effective relationships with families.
• Experience in enabling flexible and thoughtful social work practice and positive change.
  
  
  

Our Practice Supervisor Role attracts a starting salary of £43,055 with annual increments to £46,439 pro rata.

If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact Kerrie Cooke on 01629 537643.

We believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:

• Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
• Effective leadership and management which helps to reduce risk for our social workers and the children and families they support
• Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
• Systemic training - for supervision and management
• A development programme (specific to your role) - to enable you to gain confidence and competence in your role and regularly network with your peers across the department
• Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities, worth over £5000, including leadership and management development.
• Corporate membership with Research in Practice - allowing access to reputable, evidence-based research, training, and resources
• Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways
• DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
• Social Work England registration fee reimbursed
  
  
  

For more information on Children and Family services and becoming a social worker in Derbyshire please visit https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social-health/children-and-families/social-worker-recruitment/be-a-social-worker-for-derbyshire.aspx

What benefits do we offer you?

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme
• travel expenses
• discount on leisure centre memberships
• free car parking at most sites
• an in-house counselling service
• occupational health service
• access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist
• cycle to work scheme

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Government Administration

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