Specialist Social Worker

Children's Social Work Matters; Harrogate; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

North Yorkshire Council is seeking a Specialist Social Worker to join the Children and Young Peoples Services. You will provide oversight and support to Children and Families staff and partners on complex cases within safeguarding and contextual exploitation areas.

Role includes engaging with training on CSE, missing, and contextual safeguarding, using Signs of Safety and systemic approaches to achieve positive outcomes for children across the county.

Qualifications

• Social worker with oversight responsibilities and HCPC registration.
• Experience in child protection, safeguarding and complex casework.
• Ability to work with multi-agency partners to secure child welfare outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships and work with multi-agency partners to ensure the right outcomes for children.
• Attend varied and bespoke training on child sexual exploitation, exploitation, missing and safeguarding.
• Apply solution-focused, strength-based practice models including Signs of Safety, Systemic theory and Family Finding.

Skills

Multi-agency collaboration

CPD commitment

Solution-focused practice

Signs of Safety

Systemic theory

Family Finding

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

Want to find out more about working in North Yorkshire? Here are some reasons why you'll love it...

We are now pleased to be offering this excellent opportunity to join our highly acclaimed service as a Specialist Social Worker, and help us continue to offer an excellent provision.

About the Service

North Yorkshire Council have a national reputation for excellence, and we are looking for a Specialist Social Worker. Here at North Yorkshire Council, we are extremely proud of the work our Children's Services do; Ofsted has recently recognised their hard work, rating us as Outstanding across all areas.

As a Specialist Social Worker, you will be part of a small and committed team that is focused inthe fields of child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, missing and contextual safeguarding. The Specialist Social Workers are non-case however, requires you to have oversight and support Children and Families staff and wider partners to consider innovative approaches to complex casework.

About the role

Specialist Social Worker are integral in developing relationships and working alongside multi agency partners to ensure the right outcomes for children.

As Specialist Social worker you will be given the opportunity to attend varied and bespoke training child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, missing, contextual safeguarding and private fostering furthering your own CPD as well as sharing learning within the wider workforce.

The specialist social work team is committed to work with children and their families/carers, using a range of solution focussed, strength-based relationship practice models, including Signs of Safety, Systemic theory and the Family Finding approach.

We are looking for an individual who can help us continue to offer a unique service and truly make a difference to the young people of our county.

It is an exciting time in Children and Young Peoples Services in North Yorkshire as we plan our approach in respect of the Families First Partnership Programme and how we will be responding to the social care reforms. Work is underway to plan our approach and implementations for 2027. As a result of this, some realignment may happen with job roles in the future, we want to be transparent about this in respect of this role.

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure isrequiredfor appointment to this post.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adultsor childrenat risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare ofchildren andadults at risk.

North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality ofopportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.