Job Title: Social Worker, Advanced Practitioner & Practice Supervisor – Children & Families
Salary: £30,983 - £44,624 per annum pro rata + relocation support
Grade: J-M
Location: Scarborough, Craven, Ripon, Northallerton & Selby.
Hours: Full-time/ 37 hours
Contract: Permanent
We are looking for experienced or newly qualified Social Workers, Advanced Practitioners and Practice Supervisors to join our highly regarded and consistently high performing children’s social care team.
We have vacancies across all levels in our teams in Scarborough, Northallerton, Selby and Craven. This includes fostering, children in care, family assessment and support and disabled children. We continue to undertake hybrid working and will consider flexible working. See details below for an informal discussion.
We are dedicated to developing our community of employees within the Council and you will have many opportunities to progress within your career which could include, Advanced Practitioner along with Practice Educator, Practice Supervisor & management opportunities.
As a Children & Families Social Worker, your focus is to support children, their family
and network to achieve positive change that continues after we no longer need to be involved. Together we will create conditions that allow relationships to flourish. Our practice system is built to deliver this outcome. Keeping children safe and families together, the right intervention at the right time in the right place.
You will be part of a highly-acclaimed supportive service that has a comprehensive programme to ensure new recruits have a thorough induction, receive ongoing support from managers and have the opportunity to progress in your career.
As a service, we are committed to creating a healthy culture where social workers feel that they have a forum to share their views about the organisation and environment in which they work. We pride ourselves on our confident workforce who feel safe and their practice has been further enhanced by the mapping of cases which is core to this model. We have been nominated for several awards and have previously won Employer of the Year at the Social Work Awards.
As a national leader we have been recognised as an exemplar through the award of Partners in Practice status, our practice model is highly regarded nationally and is demonstrated across the county effectively to assess and manage risk, which has a demonstrably positive impact on effecting change for children and families. We have achieved this through a clear workforce strategy and practice leader forums which continue to develop and embed the model in teams.
We clearly demonstrate that the voice of the child and family shape the service we provide and is evidenced throughout practice, we understand the quality of our practice and practice outcomes and have a clear delivery mechanism for building on strengths and responding to risks and issues to drive through improvements which has a demonstrably positive impact on effecting change for children and families.
We are committed to the development of innovative working practices, we promote innovative working practices in order to achieve excellence in service provision and work life balance. You will be provided with modern technology to enable you to work remotely from other bases, as well as working from home.
We welcome any interested applicants to contact;
Heidi Scott-Nelson (Group Manager) on Heidi.Scott-Nelson@northyorks.gov.uk
Rosie Appleby (Team Manager Children in Care) on Rosie.Appleby@northyorks.gov.uk
Sarah Munday (Team Manager Disabled Children) on Sarah.Munday@northyorks.gov.uk
Karen Forrester (Team Manager Fostering Service) on Karen.Forrester@northyroks.gov.uk
We're proud to support the Local Government Association's Return to Social Work programme, offering former social workers free training so they can return to social work.
ASYE - We welcome ASYE applications for our positions.
We welcome individuals looking to relocate, for further information please see our Relocation Policy
Key dates
Closing date: Sunday 4th September 2022
Interview date: TBC
Key documents
Job Description/ Person Specification – Newly qualified & experienced Social Worker
Job Description – Advanced Practitioner
Job Description – Practice Supervisor
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Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYCC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.