The job itself
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner to cover maternity leave within our busy and effective Children’s Safeguarding Hub. We need a qualified and registered social worker who is a confident team player to join our vibrant and dedicated service on our journey to excellence.
The Safeguarding Hub is the first point of contact for all potential safeguarding concerns in relation to children. You will be part of a team of advanced social workers working in a multi-agency forum with co-located partners. You will be part of a supportive team who work together to ensure that children receive the right service, at the right time.
You will be working in a service recently rated as “GOOD” by OFSTED. The safeguarding Hub is a progressive and affirmative work environment where workers are supported to thrive.
We need someone with passion and motivation, who can provide leadership within a supportive team, with a commitment to improving effective outcomes for our children and families and continuing to develop the service to excellence.
You’ll bring:
* Experience in working with children and families in a statutory social care setting
* Confidence in your decision making and understanding of threshold
* A desire and commitment to ensure that children and families get the right support at the right time
* Proven skills in partnership working and using your own initiative
* Experience of working across organisational boundaries to achieve improved outcomes for children, young people, and their families
* Effective communication skills
* Experience of working under pressure whilst meeting deadlines
Benefits of working with us:
* Social Work England fees reimbursed
* Licence for Community Care Inform to support with evidence-based practice and CPD
* Regular reflective supervision with a focus on your wellbeing, your development, and what is working well
* Opportunity of flexible working options
* Strong leadership support at all levels
* A service-wide commitment to celebrating best practice and practice strengths
* A service-wide commitment to promoting social work wellbeing and support
* Open dialogue across the service, including with managers.
Other important information
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.
This post is subject to suitable references and an enhanced DBS Check.
Our model of practice
Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’
We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.
We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values-based model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths-based, solution-focused, and relational, recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.
A well-embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.
This is an excellent opportunity in a well-resourced and well-regarded social care environment.
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