Specialist Social Worker

Children's Social Work Matters; Scarborough; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

North Yorkshire Council is seeking a Specialist Social Worker in Scarborough to join our Children’s Services. You will provide oversight and support to Children and Families staff and partners, focusing on complex casework in areas such as child sexual exploitation, missing persons and contextual safeguarding.

We emphasise solution-focused practice, multi-agency collaboration and ongoing CPD through bespoke training.

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding children and families.
• Knowledge of child sexual exploitation, missing persons and contextual safeguarding is desirable.
• Ability to work with complex cases across services.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with multi-agency partners to ensure outcomes for children.
• Provide oversight and support to Children and Families staff and wider partners.
• Attend bespoke training on CSE, exploitation, missing, contextual safeguarding.

Skills

Multi-agency collaboration

Solution-focused practice

Communication skills

Job description

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Hours: 37 per week
Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire

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.

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 is required for 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 adults or children at risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and adults 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 of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.