Social Worker - Children with a Disability Team

Kirklees Council; Kirklees; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restorative Practice approach

Manageable caseloads with professional

High-quality induction and supervision

Bespoke learning & development

Job summary

Kirklees Council is seeking committed social workers to join our Children with a Disability Team within the Assessment & Intervention Service. We welcome experienced or newly qualified practitioners who can demonstrate safeguarding commitments and strong assessment, planning and collaboration skills.

You will work in a supportive environment with supervision, professional development, and opportunities to progress within our career structure.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safeguarding children and promoting welfare.
• Experience in a social care setting with ability to assess needs, plan, prioritise and evaluate.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to build relationships in a multi-agency environment.
• Ability to engage individuals, families and carers and use their views to inform assessments, plans and interventions.
• Up-to-date knowledge of relevant trends, policies, regulation and safeguarding.
• Proactive use of supervision to reflect on practice, explore different approaches and understand professional accountability boundaries.
• Willing to co-work and mentor less experienced practitioners.
• Willing to work towards Practice Educator Level 1 or 2 or already have a Practice Educator qualification.

Skills

Safeguarding

Assessment & planning

Communication & collaboration

Engage individuals & carers

Policy & trends knowledge

Supervision & reflection

Mentoring juniors

Practice Educator pathway

Job description

We’re Kirklees – Come and Join our team

Are you a committed and enthusiastic social worker? Are you looking for a new opportunity in an innovative and supportive environment?

We are currently recruiting social workers to join our Children with a Disability Team which is part of the wider Assessment & Intervention Service.

We are looking for experienced or newly qualified practitioners who are able to demonstrate that they:

• Have a commitment to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare
• Have experience in a social care setting with ability to assess needs, identify appropriate social work interventions, plan, prioritise and evaluate
• Have communication and collaboration skills to build productive working relationships in a multi-agency environment
• Have the ability to engage individuals, families and carers and use their views to inform assessments, plans and interventions
• Have up-to-date knowledge of relevant trends, policies, regulation and safeguarding
• proactively use supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches and understand the boundaries of professional accountability
• Can co-work and mentor less experienced practitioners
• Are willing to work towards Practice Educator Level 1 or 2 or already have a Practice Educator qualification.

We offer:

• A Restorative Practice approach to social work which involves innovation and locality working with high quality relationships at the heart of our approach.
• You will work with manageable caseloads and we will ensure that you have high-quality professional development and receive high standards of induction, supervision and management.
• Your emotional well being is very important to us and each area has an emotional well being champion ensuring we have emotionally resilient practitioners.
• We have a bespoke learning and development offer at all levels of social work allowing you access to professional development opportunities enabling you to develop and progress your career. Our well-established career structure also supports us to develop our own managers and leaders.

For more information or to have an informal discussion please contact Beverley McClure on 01484 221000