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Social Worker-Family Safeguarding - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Various location across Leicestershire
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £37,410 - £40,083 per annum plus a market supplement of £3,283 (pro-rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 4th June 2024
Interview Date(s): 28th June 2024
We have a really exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our newly structured Family Safeguarding Service in Leicestershire County Council.
About the Role
It's an exciting time to be a part of Children and Family Services at Leicestershire County Council, our staff are at the heart of delivering excellent services to children and families across Leicestershire. Come and join us and make a difference to the lives of children and families in Leicestershire.
Our Family Safeguarding Service specialises in delivering high quality Child Protection Services to children and families across Leicestershire. In this role, as an experienced social worker, you will have a focus on overseeing care proceedings, and therefore experience in this area is essential . You will also be working with children and families who are open to Child Protection Plans.
In Leicestershire we have a fantastic package to provide our workers. This includes the option as a full-time worker to do a 9 day working fortnight, hybrid working, celebrating diversity with a range of events throughout the year, recognition of our staff in annual Pride In Practice events, fantastic learning and training opportunities – enabling our staff to develop and progress within their roles.
As an organisation, 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 are committed to doing our very best for vulnerable children and families; working to make a positive impact on their lives so they can achieve their potential and flourish.
We are proud of our continuous improvement plan - 'Achieving Excellence through Purposeful Practice' which sets out our key values, behaviours and ambitions. We have embedded the Signs of Safety approach throughout our services and this approach mirrors our values of Aspiration , Being Curious and Collaboration . We are focused on working with families and the networks of family, friends and professionals around children, to work in collaboration to achieve shared goals.
We are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department where we believe we are " ". Our culture is one of partnership, where we look for solutions and recognise the potential impact of trauma on the children and families we work with and on our staff. We will strive to create a safe, compassionate, healing environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust, respect, hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a deliberate effort to know and understand people, and by providing hope for growth and recovery.
We support and empower our staff to be the best 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 a 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....
