Social Worker - Complex Safeguarding Team

Bury Complex Safeguarding Team are looking to recruit to the post of Complex Safeguarding Social Worker with a focus on ensuring that young people at risk of Child Exploitation receive support, information, and services to meet their needs and safety.

You will be completing direct work with young people, mainly on an individual basis, but in groups if required, to enhance their skills, knowledge, and self-confidence to develop ways to exit exploitative situations and relationships or minimise the risk to their safety. You will be required to deliver this work in a range of settings, exercising tenacious practice and the work will incorporate different activities based on the needs of the young person. The interventions that you deliver will be young person led and a key focus of your work will be on building positive relationships and identifying the strengths of the young people to support them to reach their potential. You will be highly skilled at assessing and responding to risk, particularly contextual risks, and at formulating safety plans with young people aimed at minimising these risks.

The post is suitable for those with experience in complex safeguarding and looking to further their knowledge through this position. The post of CST social worker requires a focus on tenacious, child-centred practice aligned to strengths based, relational models of practice. You will have the confidence to work in partnership with other agencies and challenge professionally where required, and work with the colleagues across complex safeguarding teams in Greater Manchester to ensure effective cross boarder networking and mapping where required.

Collaborative practice with social care colleagues is a key attribute to this role. There is an expectation that training around child exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery will be facilitated as part of the role. There is also a requirement to support children who go missing in the borough alongside the missing from home family support workers when required. Experience of working within the frameworks of the National Referral Mechanism and peer network mapping are also useful attributes to the role.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed worker who shares our passion for young people and is prepared to get alongside them, engaging them in positive activities. We are looking for candidates who can be creative and persistent in the way that they work with young people.

We are one of the first Authorities in the North-west to be pioneering the Hertfordshire Family Safeguarding model of working with families and training will be provided to learn new skills such as motivational interviewing.

We want to invest in you, and we have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form relationships, seeing the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to support families to live together safely and for children and young people to thrive.

Working collectively, we prioritise support, training and development to serve within child centred practice. If you are enthusiastic about children, young people and their families and want to work and develop your practice, then we could be perfect for you.

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! For an informal discussion about the role please contact Service Manager Sakera Sheth on or Head of Service Initial Response Emma Appleby.

Employee Benefits include:

Pay increases in line with your continued professional development.

Free parking where you work - worth £860 a year for Social Workers who work from town centre locations where there is no ready access to free parking, plus car mileage.

Opportunities to develop new and specialist skills.

Innovative training and development opportunities.

Supportive integrated teams and a friendly working environment.

Professional supervision to a high standard.

Local Government Pension Scheme.

A range of attractive work/life balance policies.

26 days annual leave (rising to 31 days after 5 years), plus an additional day of leave over the Christmas period and the option to buy an additional 10 days on top of that.

Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local business within the borough as well as a cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme.

Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through difficult times, with things like free counselling, financial or legal advice.

It all adds up to an exciting package.

We've improved our interview process too - you'll get a quick response to your application, and we have regular interview days.

We listen

We hold monthly Voice of the Workforce meetings where we discuss how we can resolve practice challenges and create better conditions for social work to thrive.

We encourage work-life balance

We want our Social Workers to have enough time to relax, spend time with family and friends, and feel good, so that they can do their best at work.

Please be aware that we are not carrying out international recruitment at present and are currently unable to support sponsorship.

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

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