Social Worker

Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership; Uttoxeter; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffordshire County Council is seeking experienced social workers for the Assessment and Staying Together teams with vacancies in Uttoxeter and Burton, East Staffordshire. This role focuses on safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children and families within a district model.

You will work across the continuum of need, coordinating plans, and contributing to care proceedings. A clear progression framework supports development and learning in partnership with local services.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Ideally have completed the ASYE before starting this role.

Responsibilities

• Work with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need to care proceedings.
• Collaborate with Early Help, Children in Care, Care Leavers and Health/Education teams.
• Coordinate the child’s plan, review and ensure children are seen and heard.
• Undertake section 47 investigations.
• Support placement of children into local authority care when required.
• Prepare Private and Public law reports and refer to centralised services for specialist support.

Skills

Registered with SWE

UK driving licence

ASYE completed

Job description

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We have some exciting new opportunities for social workers available with us in the Assessment and Staying Together teams, with vacancies based in Uttoxeter and Burton, East Staffordshire.

Life-changing work.

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 and this 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 ofworking with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.

A career progression framework is in place to support you which includes:

We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.

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Main Responsibilities

You will:

• Work with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need through to the conclusion of Care Proceedings.
• Working within a District Model you will work closely with your colleagues in Early Help, Children in Care and Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities Team. In addition, toour colleagues in health and education.
• Be responsible for completing the statutory duties in co ordinating the child’s plan, reviewing and ensuring that our children are seen and heard.
• Undertake section 47 investigations
• Undertake placement of children into Local Authority care, when it is agreed they can no longer remain at home
• Be responsible for the completion of both Private and Public law reports
• Be responsible for referring into our centralised services for specialist support/ services.

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle
• 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.

Interviews will be held on week commencing 12th October 2026

Our Recruitment Process

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

For information, please note that there is currently an ongoing review within Children and Families to realign individual teams and the wider team’s ways of working. As a result, this role may be affected by the review. For further information, please speak to the hiring manager.

Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes.

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.

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.

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 background 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.