Senior Social Work Practitioner - Leicester, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council
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Leicester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We have opportunities to join our skilled and supported workforce.

We have vacancies in the following teams / service areas for experienced social workers:


  • First Response Children's Duty at County Hall
  • Loughborough Fieldwork team
  • Coalville Fieldwork team
  • Hinckley Fieldwork team
  • Wigston Fieldwork team
  • Children with Disabilities team
  • Children in Care Service

Interviews will be held on the 24th February.

As a senior social work practitioner, you will work with families under complex and challenging circumstances. Your role will be to develop and support the skills of newly qualified workers thorough and other practitioners thorough co-working and mentoring and providing supervision for non-social work qualified practitioners. You will lead on facilitating our regular group supervision POD sessions. You will also provide support to the team manager.


At Leicestershire County Council, we are committed to a strong and skilled workforce providing high quality services to the children and families of Leicestershire following our relationship-based Signs of Safety practice approach.

We devote time into supporting and empowering our staff to be the best workers that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and families.


We want all our staff to be inspired to go the extra mile. We are doing our best to create the sort of culture where practice excellence can flourish. We want to learn from what works, as much, if not more, than from when things go badly - we are ambitious to create a true 'learning organisation. So

  • Every year we run three annual conferences for staff to come together and reflect and learn.
  • Every month each team sets aside time for team learning.
  • You will receive consistent, regular and reflective supervision
  • You will receive group supervision support
  • Twice a year our senior leaders take a week out spending time with social workers observing practice and talking to young people and parents and carers about their experience of services
  • All Social Work England registered workers have three extra Continuous Professional Development days over the year.
  • Our training offer to social workers is refreshed each year and is highly valued by our staff
  • We provide course and training to support workforce career progression including Practice Educator Awards, Aspiring Managers Program, and Social Work Apprenticeship Program.
  • We have a team dedicated to supporting practice excellence who work alongside practitioners offering monthly training and learning, coaching and mentoring to build practitioner confidence, 1:1 or group reflective case discussions, and other support to staff and teams that can be requested.
  • Our Practice Development Group is well established for practitioners to collaborate on practice development.
  • We have a Critical Incident Response service for staff which provides independent therapeutic support within 48 hours if you experience a significant traumatic experience within work.
  • We have a wellrespected Wellbeing Service who provide specific support to staff when needed, but also offers events throughout the year.

Who we are looking for:


  • You will be an energetic and enthusiastic worker who demonstrates enthusiasm and passion for practice.
  • You will have experience of working in statutory children's services and an in depth understanding of the interventions required to build safety and protect children from harm.
  • You will be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative and relationshipbased social work, working in collaboration with families and professionals.
  • We want people who will help us to build a real culture of reflection and learning.
  • You have retained a strong interest in research and the evidence base for practice and are confident about how this can be used in practice
We hope this sounds like you


Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£45,378.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Free parking

Work Location:
One location


Reference ID:
CYP2214
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