Senior Social Work Assistant - Bridgwater, United Kingdom - Somerset County Council

Somerset County Council

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Bridgwater, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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A bit about us Somerset County Council
have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Social Work Assistant in the Wider Safeguarding Team in Sedgemoor**.

This is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

We are looking for people who are passionate and enthusiastic to support qualified Social Workers to provide a high quality service for all children and families we are supporting.

The team for the Sedgemoor area is based in
Bridgwater House in Bridgwater, and we offer flexible hybrid working, combining time spent with the teams in the office along with home working.

Here's what you can expect to be doing

We can offer you:

Small, friendly and supportive teams to progress your career within Children's Social Care
Experience of working alongside Social Workers, and alternatively qualified Adult Focused Practitioners to support children and families.
Strengths and relationshipbased approach to underpin your work with children and families
Regular highquality systemic personal and group supervision
Flexible working within our teams and we will consider part time, 9 day fortnight and other flexible working approaches.

A few things about you

Supporting Social Workers working with children and families, you will have the opportunity to support profound changes to a child's life, and help to keep children at home, safely, within their families where possible.

As a Social Work Assistant, you will not have statutory responsibility, but will work directly with children and families and complete tasks of gathering information, building relationships, supporting parents, so you will need to have good relationship-based skills.

You will also be responsible for inputting information onto an electronic record so require a good standard of written skills and ability to use technology.

Given the nature of the role, you will need to be prepared to spend the majority of your time in the office or with children and families.

You will need to hold a full driving licence and have access to your own vehicle as travel is required.

Additional information
The salary range for this role is £21,968 to £24,054 per annum

For an informal chat about the role, please contact
Hayley Moorcraft on or

From 1 April 2023 the County and District councils in Somerset will be replaced by a new single unitary authority - Somerset Council.

It's a genuinely exciting time to join us as we work together with the four district councils to deliver the new council for Somerset.

Why choose Somerset County Council

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management.

As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

We promote a healthy worklife balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
Staff discounts in gyms.
Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
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DBS information
This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

Job Reference:
SCC03765