Supervision & Support Service (South)
MORE THAN JUST A JOB, WE OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY TO GROW
Bring your skills and passion to our team and join us as an Advanced Social Worker in our Fostering Supervision and Support Service. This is a great opportunity to grow your social work career with an ambitious authority at a time of exciting change. We’ve embedded our restorative practice approach across our teams and have invested in training our all practitioners and managers to build and maintain positive relationships with our children, young people and carers.
About the role
Working closely with your Team Manager, you will provide professional leadership and supervision to colleagues within your team, supporting your manager with the day-to-day operations of your team and contributing to an effective and efficient service to children and families.
This is a hands-on role, where you have a smaller but more complex caseload, working with children and young people with a complexity of needs (including undertaking in-depth assessments) and where, through supervision and mentoring, you will share your knowledge and experience with colleagues and students to continually improve practice standards within your team.
You will champion high standards of professional social work practice, by encouraging and supporting opportunities for reflection and learning and delivering on-the-job training, coaching, and mentoring to unqualified/alternatively qualified staff, students, and less experienced social workers.
About you
Advanced Social Workers provide a lead social work role within each team, supporting the development of good evidence-based practice. With substantial post-qualifying experience and the ability to demonstrate that you’re working at the Experienced Social Worker level in line with the BASW PCF framework, you will:
1. Demonstrate the ability to work holistically with foster families, supporting children with complex needs within a multi-agency environment
2. Be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of social work mentoring, coaching, and training professional colleagues
3. Have evidence of substantial post-qualifying training and development
4. Be able to lead improvement and challenge the quality of social care practice in a constructive manner
You will also need to either be a Practice Educator or willing to undertake the relevant training at the earliest opportunity.
What you’ll get in return
In return for the vital contribution that you make, we have some fantastic employee benefits available, including:
5. Generous annual leave, & the ability to purchase additional annual leave.
6. Free onsite parking.
7. Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee well-being services.
8. We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
9. Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
10. Discounts at over 900 national & local high street retailers through our benefits platform.
11. Cycle to work scheme.
12. Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
If you are looking to move to Devon, subject to qualifying conditions, we offer a generous relocation allowance. There has never been a better time to make the move!