Advanced Social Worker

As an Advanced Social Worker in the Assessment & Staying Together teams you'll:

• Manage a complex allocation of children
• Share in day to day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child In Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings and complex Child In Need Core Group meetings.
• Coordinate and facilitate team group supervision
• Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.
• Ensure the teamwork towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.
• Mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceeding work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers
• Be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team
• Provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.
• Lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.
  
  We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care., As an experience social worker to apply for this role you must have:
• A social work degree and be Social Work England (SWE) registered
• Post qualifying experience in social work
• Knowledge of legislation and guidance underpinning delivery of children's social care e.g. Children's Act, Working Together, Adoption Act, Every Child Matters
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Knowledge and skills in supporting assessment and formulating plans for children and young people
• Experience in mentoring
• Demonstrated ability in improving outcomes for children and young people
• Examples of creative social work practice to keep children and young people within their families where safe to do so.
  
  You will be based in Stafford, Town Centre and ideally be able to work on a Monday, Thursday and every other Friday
A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:
• Practice Educator Programme.
• Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.
• We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.
For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire Hear more from Michael, on what its like to work here!

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