Social Worker - Level 1 & 2 - Childrens Services Locality Services
Team: Locality Social Work Service
Job Family: Supporting - CBG9/CBG10
Salary:
Level 1 Social Worker: £32,441 - £35,107 per annum, pro rata - Plus MRS £5,100 per annum, pro rata
Level 2 Social Worker: £35,992 - £37,536 per annum pro rata - Plus MRS £5,150 per annum, pro rata & Enhanced MRS £3,850 per annum, pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent and Fixed Term Contracts Available
Closing Date: Rolling advert
Interview Date: applications will be reviewed and interviews arranged on an ongoing basis
About the role
Central Bedfordshire Council is looking for Social Workers who are passionate about getting it right for children and their families the first time.
We are recruiting Social Workers who have at least one year’s post qualifying experience and a good understanding of how to apply different social work theories and models, which support ideas and the delivery of imaginative ambitious interventions that improve outcomes for children, young people, and their families.
Working with us, you’ll be able to take advantage of our robust training offer to develop and progress within our service. We are proud that Central Bedfordshire enable’s workers to gain a vast amount of experience working with families at child in need, child protection and court work.
The Local Authority’s Children’s Services department is aspiring to progress from the current ‘Good’ Ofsted rating to be an ‘Outstanding’ Children’s Services, ensuring that our children and young people have the best support and achieve their best outcomes. Children’s Services at Central Bedfordshire Council has been awarded social work ‘employer of the year’.
Families have told us there are too many transition points for children and we have listened. Social Workers now support children from assessment onwards enabling them to build up meaningful relationships with families and create lasting change. We focus on ensuring children receive timely support and reduce the number of children we have coming into local authority care.
About you
You will have:
- Experience in managing a varied caseload of children, visiting families, completing direct work with children to understand their views and lived experiences.
- Experience chairing multi-agency meetings and liaising with a range of other professionals to support our most vulnerable children.
- Proven experience having an impact on families in achieving positive outcomes for children
- Excellent verbal communication skills to enable you to communicate effectively with children, parents and other agencies, and the written skills to present high-quality assessments and reports.
- A passion for delivery of high quality services and interventions to vulnerable children
We are able to provide you with:
- Access to training in Systemic Practice and Motivational Training
- Support to complete Practice Education qualifications
- Support to complete a post-qualifying Masters in Child and Family Social Work
- Regular personal and group supervisions
- Supportive Managers, Senior Leaders and Teams
- Manageable caseloads allowing for outstanding work
In Children’s Services, we are dedicated to providing the best possible service to our community and have won a number of achievements to reflect our hard work. You can view a list of these on our website.
Regrettably, we cannot accept applications from those who do not hold recognised social work qualifications.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies detailed within this Recruitment Pack; Social Worker - Level 1 & 2
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Ben Feasmen at ben.feasmen@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 6820.
For queries related to the recruitment of this vacancy, please contact: The Recruitment Team at recruitment@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
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Safeguarding (For DBS posts only):
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
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