Job Title: Social Worker

Team: Court Team- Safeguarding

Hours: 37

Grade: H scp 27 £31,894 to scp 31 £35,336

Contract: Permanent

The Role - This is where you can really make a difference in our Courts team:

•  Specialise in working with children and families in the public law outline and care proceedings, both private and public
• Completing specialist reports as court directed
• Being the expert in your field in completing comprehensive social work assessments including completion of sibling and needs assessments
• Developing support and transition plans
• Provide a purposeful, professional social work service to children and their families with matters before the court
• 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
• When children cannot remain with their family, that they have timely plans of permanency, through to adoption.
• Working closely with the adoption team in respect of family finding, matching and adoption

If this sounds like an opportunity you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you. For an informal chat, please contact our Team Managers, Sarah Crowther (07581212483) or Samantha Donohoe (07969529137).

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.

Our offer to you - being a Social Worker is not easy, but it is rewarding.  You will have access to a wide range of benefits to support you to be the best you can be, including:

You will be surrounded by a strong, supportive network of experienced Social Workers and Managers who will provide you with a comprehensive induction, training, help and advice to enable you to reach your full potential.

Regular supervision

Daily touchdowns; all our safeguarding and Court teams have daily virtual touch downs to make sure that we keep connected, work as a team and support each other professionally and emotionally during these unprecedented times

Work with you to identify your career aspirations and support you to achieve these

Access to learning and development opportunities and activities for your Continued Professional Development

Opportunities to shape practice and service delivery with the Principal Social Worker Team

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.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list 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.