Use your experience to enhance work with children, young people and families
Walsall is implementing the Families First Programme, based on the National Children’s Social Care Review and Stable Homes Built on Love. To do this we are creating a combined, multi-agency locality Family Help Service, building on the strengths of Family Safeguarding model.
About the job
In this role, you will be supported to identify your specialisms and areas of interest, and access training to develop your expertise in these areas. This forms a part of our ongoing commitment to your development, with opportunities to progress into Senior Practitioner, Consultant Social Worker, and Lead Child Protection Practitioner roles.
Our Offer
To provide the right conditions for you, we are committed to manageable workloads aiming for an average of 12 children, high support from managers, essential paperwork only, enabling technologies, and all social workers will receive training in Systemic Family Practice.
Wellbeing is at the heart of our work. We offer specialised clinical supervision, a 9-day fortnight to support work/life balance, flexible working, and specialist employee assistance and therapeutic support when it is needed. We know we need to make social work a career people want to stay in.
We are committed to anti-discrimination and equality and to developing a workforce that reflects the communities we service.
Salary Scale: £42,403 - £47,420 (+10% Retention Payments after 2 years, increasing at 4 and 6 years)
Closing date: 30 September 2024.
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