Social Work Consultant - Families First Service
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
05/05/2022
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 22/05/2022 23:59
Salary:
Grade 13 with corresponding salaries £40,578 - £44,624
Allowances:
£2,500 lump sum recruitment and retention allowance (reviewed annually).
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, as required.
Further Information
Social Work Consultant
CYPS/22/347
Durham Children and Young People’s Services are seeking a Social Work Consultant in the Families First Service.
Due to significant investment and the creation of a new team, we have wonderful opportunity to join Durham as a Social Work Consultant in our new team.
The teams have made wonderful progress so you will be joining at a brilliant time. The creation of a further team would allow you to develop your own team focusing on a learning culture promoting relational practise.
We would love you to be brave, curious, flexible, nurturing, decisive and a wonderful communicator.
You will be working with creative, supportive North locality team working with Children and Families. You will be supported by amazing colleagues, Team Managers, Social Work Consultants, and the extended senior management team. We provide a really strong training and development offer.
Recently we asked our team why people stayed and what was good about Durham and feedback to our Principal Social Worker was: ‘We stay because of strong leadership and an open culture where you can ask questions. Supportive. An organisation that focuses on children rather than services. The opportunity to work in specialist services and we appreciate flexible/hybrid working’.
We are looking to recruit a permanent, full-time social work consultant to work in our new Families First Central team. Come and talk to Judith Rayne (Service manager) via email Judith.Rayne2@durham.gov.uk; we would love to explore opportunities with you. We also welcome you to talk to our current Team Managers which Judith can also discuss with you.
The role of the Social Work Consultant is to work with the team manager to manage and supervise an integrated, multi skilled social work led team, ensuring high quality and effective services are delivered to children and their families in line with procedures, legislation, and national guidance.
The successful candidate will:
• Play a key role in developing and monitoring the competency of front-line social care practitioners by developing, maintaining and championing expertise in specific areas of work with children and families; by driving excellent practice based on research evidence and professional experience; and, by supporting achievement of improved outcomes for vulnerable children and their families.
• Provide constructive challenge to enhance practice, procedures, and policies, promote innovation and introduce new ways of working from recognised areas of excellence.
• Contribute to the development of knowledge and promotion of excellence within the team making use of sophisticated, critical reasoning as well as modelling and facilitating reflective and evidence-based decision making.
• Offer management advice/consultation to One Point team managers on level 3 cases as required.
This would be an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who wants to:
• Take a first step into management.
• Work alongside the team manager to manage a team which carries out meaningful and rewarding work which achieves the best outcomes for children.
• Ensure that the team participate in high quality reflective supervision, which supports decision making based on evidence.
• Quality assure work and give constructive feedback.
• Build and maintain successful working relationships with colleagues from a wide range of agencies.
In Durham you will benefit from:
• A senior leadership team that listens and cares about you and your work.
• A quality framework which supports practice improvement.
• Professional development pathways for every stage of your career.
• A culture of high expectations, high challenge, and high support.
• A culture which celebrates social work.
You can find out more through our social work careers website http://www.durham.gov.uk/socialwork
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Judith Rayne via email Judith.Rayne2@durham.gov.uk.
Required qualifications: Degree in social work or equivalent social work qualification, e.g. Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (PGDipSW) Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Diploma in Social Work (DipSW), Certificate in Social Services (CSS) & Current Social Work England registration.
The successful applicant for this post will be required to apply for a Disclosure & Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place face to face on 31st May 2022.
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.