Social Workers - Children Looked After
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Please see advert text
Advert Start Date:
18/05/2022
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 05/06/2022 23:59
Salary:
Grade 9 Social Worker £29,174 - £32,798 (pre-progression) or Grade 11 Senior Social Worker £34,373 - £38,553 (post-progression)
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
An approved team location. However, you may be required to work at any Durham County Council location.
Further Information
Children and Young Peoples Service
Childrens Social Care
Vacancy Reference: CYPS/22/63C
Social Worker – Full and part time hours available
Salary: Grade 9 Social Worker £29,174 - £32,798 (pre-progression) or Grade 11 Senior Social
Worker £34,373 - £38,553 (post-progression)
This is an exciting time to join the Children Looked After Service in Durham as we have just restructured and now have five smaller teams.
We are looking for aspirational social worker’s, who have completed their ASYE year in practice, to support children and their families and bring their skills and experience to further develop our service.
The Looked After Team work with children and young people primarily between the ages of 0 and 18 who are looked after. Young people are most likely to be living with foster carers, but could also be in residential care, or with family and friend carers. The team aims to promote placement stability and education to maximise the life chances of young people.
We support a number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children within our service and this could be a focus area for any social workers on our teams.
This opportunity will be attractive to social workers who want to:
• Form positive long-term relationships with young people and their carers
• Undertake planned work, with some requirement to manage unplanned situations
Work with children who have a plan of adoption and support them to move to their adoptive placements
We are looking for social workers who:
• Are able to build effective relationships with young people and their carers
• Have excellent organisational skills - able to plan their work well and manage unplanned work when required
• Have great report writing and analytical skills
• Are resilient
• Are able to travel. This is normally limited to County Durham and neighbouring local authority areas but could be a greater distance.
In return we offer a supportive team environment, excellent professional development, regular supervision, and career progression.
Required qualifications: Degree in social work or equivalent social work qualification, e.g. Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (PDDipSW) Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Diploma in Social Work (DipSW), Certificate in Social Services (CSS) and Current Social Work England Registration
If you are interested in the post and would like to find out more, please don’t hesitate to contact Lesley Baldry for an informal discussion, Tel: 03000 265363 or e-mail:
lesley.baldry2@durham.gov.uk .
You can find out more through our social work careers website: www.durham.gov.uk/socialwork.
It is expected virtual interviews will take place week commencing 13th June 2022.
The successful applicant for this post will be required to apply for a Disclosure & Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure.
As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.
Apply on-line via the North East Jobs Portal or for further assistance contact the Payroll and Employee Services Team on Email: PESCYPS@durham.gov.uk
In line with the County Council’s Recruitment & Selection Policy, please note that we are unable to accept CV’s. Any information provided on CV’s will not be considered for short-listing purposes.
Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered with North East Jobs, including your invite to interview if you are short-listed. Please check your email after the closing date for notification from ‘DONOTREPLY@NORTHEASTJOBS.ORG.UK’ as you will not be notified by any other means.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.