Advanced Social Work Practitioner (Safeguarding)
- Employer
- Bolton Council
- Location
- Bolton, Greater Manchester
- Salary
- Grade I (£35,336 to £39,570 per annum) plus essential car user allowance
- Closing date
- 5 Sep 2022
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- Sector
- Health and Social Care, Health, Social Care
- Contract Type
- Full time
Job Title: Advanced Social Work Practitioner
Team: Safeguarding Team
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: Grade I (£35,336 to £39,570 per annum) plus essential car user allowance
Contract: Permanent
Qualifications Required: Relevant professional social work qualification and Social Work England Registration.
This post has been designated an essential car user post. Applicants must hold a full, current and valid driving licence and a vehicle with a current valid MOT certificate. There must also be adequate vehicle insurance cover to comply with the council’s requirements, in line with the Travel Costs Reimbursement Policy
The Role:
This is where you can really make a difference
We have fantastic opportunities for experienced, highly enthusiastic, resilient and dynamic senior practitioners to join our Safeguarding team. The Advanced Social Work Practitioner role in Bolton is empowering and insightful. You will be able to develop your management and leadership skills whilst receiving dedicated support and guidance.
The ASWP role offers a fantastic opportunity for practitioners who are ready to take their social work career onto its next stage or for those who want to take their first step towards a management position.
As an Advanced Practitioner you will:
Coach, mentor, co-work and buddy less experienced colleagues, sharing your knowledge and expertise to help them become the leaders of the future, inspiring them to improve and deliver excellent practice.
Have a reduced caseload, using your skills to manage the more complex cases in children’s social care, whilst also providing clinical leadership and expertise to the wider social work team.
Strive to offer families the support and intervention they need to make and sustain positive change so they can safely meet the needs of their children. Through our restorative practice approach, you will actively encourage imaginative, and family focussed interventions, and when children cannot remain with family that they have timely plans of permanency.
Take a look at the attached job description for more information on the role….
About You:
We want you to inspire us and have a real impact on the way we work. In return you will gain the opportunity to develop your professional skills and your career in a challenging but supportive environment
You will be motivated and enthusiastic, with excellent communication skills enabling you to build professional relationships with children and their families to ensure their engagement.
You will have good knowledge and experience in safeguarding children, as well as being able to produce high quality, timely assessments and understand the current changes within children’s social work.
You will act as a champion for service development and improvement within Safeguarding and Early Help, role modelling Research in Practice and undertaking high quality assessments.
You will be able to produce reports to an excellent standard, and deliver accurate and concise information verbally, in written form and where necessary in court.
If you would like to have a chat about opportunities with Bolton, please do contact Karen Ogle our Head of Safeguarding. Karen can be contacted on 07507773609 or at Karen.Ogle@bolton.gov.uk.
Our offer to you
You will have access to a wide range of benefits to support you to be the best you can be, including:
Regular supervision, easy access to support and excellent in-house training
Supportive work environment where we recognise and reward your experience
Access to learning and development opportunities and activities for your Continued Professional Development
Opportunities to share practice and service delivery with the Principle Social Work Team with full access to Research in Practice learning resources.
Even more reasons to join at Bolton:
- Agile and flexible working options, ensuring you achieve a good work life balance.
- Essential care user allowance.
- Generous annual leave – a minimum of 28 days, rising to 31 days after 5 years’ service.
- Free parking and modern, well appointed, air-conditioned office accommodation with onsite café.
- Salary is flexible and will be dependent on experience and skills.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Excellent pension scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme
About Us:
In Bolton, we have set a clear direction of travel; in partnership we are forging ahead to 2030 with a vision of a town and borough built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses, and healthy residents.
Our big aspiration is that our children and young people reach their full potential and leading happy and fulfilling lives. You will be central to the delivery of this aspiration, and we’re making good progress. Ofsted have given our Social Care services a Good rating. Our health and social care integration is moving forward with pace and purpose and we are successfully remodelling our finances to protect the sustainability of our services to children and young people.
Our focus is to improve outcomes for all children and young people, ensuring that those in need of extra help and support receive it in a way that keeps them safe and that we listen and understand their individual needs.
Bolton is a fantastic place to work, and our employees thrive working here. We are incredibly proud of our Bolton Family, of which you will become an integral part.
If this sounds like an opportunity you would like to know more about, we would love to hear from you.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.
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