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Stepping Stones Cared for Team Advanced Social Worker

Social Care

Children's Services

Salford City Council

Salford City Council

Salford Civic Centre

Chorley Road

Swinton

M27 5AW

Stepping Stones Cared for Team Advanced Social Worker

Grade: 4C, £47,420 - £50,512

Working hours: 36 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 2nd June 2024 (We are holding interviews the week of 10th June 2024)

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We are on our way to achieving our goal to provide Outstanding support and care to children, families, carers and practitioners across Salford. We are investing in the right social workers to get us there across our teams from newly qualified social workers to team managers including those who are looking to relocate to the area.

We are expanding our teams within our Stepping Stones Cared for Team and have a vacancy for an Advanced Social Worker to join us.

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Our stepping stones team is made up of 3 teams of 8 social workers, 4 advanced social workers, three team managers and one service manager and head of service. Our cared for team work with cared for children in various settings such as residential, foster care, connected persons and at home with parents. You will support children and young people following the finalising of Court Proceedings up until the age of 16 or discharge.

We are unique in that we have a separate team to assist social workers in discharging of orders or work carried out before transferring to a new team.

We are rich in resources including our own CAMHS service which is STARLAC to our specialist Route29 service which helps with placement stability and rehab homes including after hours support, visits including weekend.

Have a keen interest in an area? As an Advanced Social Worker we are keen for you to have specialisms or be a ‘champion’ of practice in a certain area and offer the opportunity to become a practice educator if you wish to do so.

In Salford, we are interested in you as a person and the practitioner you are or who you aspire to be.

Your role will include:

• You will effectively manage a limited caseload of cared for children and young people in accordance with statutory responsibilities. You will deploy these responsibilities in accordance with national and local policies and procedures to secure positive outcomes for children.

• You will have responsibility for the supervision of social work support officers, qualified social work staff and trainees and contribute to the development of other staff including other social workers.

• You will build effective relationships with children, young people and their families enabling full participation in assessment, planning, review and decision making.

• You will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multi-agency environment, providing a professional social work service. You will secure access to services, negotiating and challenging other professionals and organisations to provide the help required.

• You will support the practice manager with the development and performance of the team.

• You will undertake audits and quality assurance of case files.

• You will work in accordance with national and local policies and procedures, and use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions.

What we can offer you:

Up to 34 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays).
Competitive salary following pay and grading review in 2023.
Free parking and essential car user allowance.
Hybrid working giving flexibility for you to manage your diary and offer a better work/life balance.
Recently refurbished office space with free parking on site. The majority of our teams are sat together in Swinton at Unity House.
Rich in resources to help you with any child or family you work with.
Robust training offer and mentoring scheme to support you with your career and aspirations.
A comprehensive Wellbeing Offer
Regular, quality, reflective supervision from a consistent management and leadership team.

If you are interested in knowing more about the make-up of our teams, how we work, our offer to you please visit:

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Our friendly teams could talk your socks off when it comes to all things Social Work. We appreciate you may want to have a look around our offices, meet some staff or your future potential teams and shadow– we’re happy to arrange this.

We'd love to hear from you and find out more about what you're looking for so if you'd like to talk to us please just drop a quick message to social.work@salford.gov.uk and we'll get a call arranged. We look forward to hearing from you!

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£47,420

contract

permanent

working hours

full time

application deadline

11 59 pm

2nd Jun 2024

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