Social Worker - Disabled Children
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
16/05/2022
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 14/07/2022 23:59
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
Stockton-on-Tees
Further Information
Things are happening and changing at pace here in Children’s Services in Stockton on Tees. There’s lots going on and we have come a long way. We’re seeking ambitious, hardworking and innovative people to join our Disabled Childrens Team. We are seeking to recruit to a vacant Social Work post.
The successful candidate will have post qualifying experience. Will be skilled at listening to the voice of the child. Be able to work effectively alongside parents and carers, other professionals internally and externally and recognises the value in multi-agency working, to deliver the best service possible to disabled children and their families.
We recognise that each disabled child’s lived experience is unique, each child’s needs and family’s needs are individual to them. We are therefore seeking a qualified and skilled Social Worker who can be adaptive and flexible in their approach in assessing and identify need, and then be able to plan packages of care and support to meet that need. If this is you, we are keen to hear from you.
This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to hold children at the centre of everything that we do and reinforce our commitment to embedding relationship -based practice.
We recognise that we will promote the best outcomes for children by focusing on relationships with and within families, and also with each other as a staff team and with our multi-agency partners.
We’re revising our workforce strategy to support this and investing in additional resources to create manageable workloads, with an emphasis on working together in a supportive team environment.
We are expanding our social work teams, introducing new team structures and expanding our help and support (early help) offer, making up an extensive offer to families across Children’s Services.
We’ll support you to flourish and be the best you can, delivering high-quality services and working closely with professionals from a range of agencies to improve the lived experience of children.
In addition to excellent career progression opportunities, with a clear and supported development path, we also offer agile working, with flexible and family friendly policies, that have a work/life balance at their core, plus lots, lots more…as you can see below.
It’s rewarding
• Competitive salary to match your expertise
• 26-31 days of annual leave (depending on length of service), plus an annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent local government pension scheme
• Your SWE Registration paid for
And we’ll support you
• Great tech to keep you connected
• Family friendly policies
• Access to free health and wellbeing services
• Leisure discounts
• Bus and train discounts, cycle to work scheme
• Supportive management and leadership
• A wide range of learning and development opportunities
• . …And much much more!
For more information about the role, please contact Team Manager Patti Sanderson on 01642 524540
Please note
This job is closed for applications.