Social Worker - Parenting Practitioner Team

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Warwickshire County Council as a Social Worker in the Parenting Practitioner Team. This role involves conducting specialist assessments and providing integral support to families, empowering them to achieve sustained positive outcomes. Supported by a robust supervision policy, you will work collaboratively within a dedicated team to foster family well-being and ensure effective decision-making.

Benefits

Generous annual leave plus additional day at Christmas

Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee

Volunteering & Wellbeing Day

Qualifications

• Must have a professional qualification in social work.
• Registration with Social Work England required.
• Experience in completing specialist assessments.

Responsibilities

• Complete specialist assessments including parenting and pre-birth assessments.
• Work collaboratively with families and social workers.
• Write coherent reports in accordance with legal standards.

Skills

Teamwork

Assessment Skills

Communication

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Social Work England Registration

Job description

About the Team:

North Warwickshire Family Help Team are looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker looking to make a difference to join our County Wide Parenting Practitioner Team.

Now is an exciting time to be a part of our team as Warwickshire has been chosen as one of the seven areas to deliver the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme. Join us to help shape and influence the future of children's social care together. 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 if you're talking about a return to us with an ex colleague/friend.

About the Role:

We are recruiting for the role of Social Worker in our Parenting Practitioner Team on a fulltime permanent basis.

Warwickshire’s Parenting Practitioner’s Team brings together experienced family support workers and social workers that parents, carers and families can work with to achieve successful outcomes and sustained change in their own lives.

An opportunity has arisen within the service for a social worker to join the team to complete specialistassessments across the county including capacity to change, pre-birth assessments and parenting assessments to assist good decision making.

To complete specialist assessments including capacity to change, parenting assessments and pre-birth assessments to assist good decision making. To work with the case management social worker where possible on completing the assessments and where, to ensure there is a clear agreed purpose and outcome for the assessment.

• Work collaboratively with parents, children, young people, social workers, FSW’s and others to complete specialist assessments.
• Identify and lead the implementation of support to parents to enable them to safely parent, during the assessment process.
• Write coherent and succinctly in line with WCC & Family Court rules.
• Manage and lead understanding of risk and work collaboratively to make recommendations and implement safe parenting plans.
• Be confident in presentation of assessments, with clear evidenced based rationale

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 Specifications below:

• Year 2Social Worker - Grade K
• Year 3Senior Social Worker - Grade L

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.

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 Jay Olukoya, [e-mail]

Closing Date: 26^th June 2025
Interview Date: 2^nd July 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