Our BenefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your familyBuy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice schemeTake your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstancesMake Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savingsAccess to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growthPaid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working dayAccess to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion networkOpportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition AwardsAn Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemesTake a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.About the roleIn Cambridgeshire we are committed to improving the experience of our newly qualified Social Worker (NQSW) colleagues. Ensuring that in their first year of practice they receive dedicated support and protected caseloads enabling them to thrive in their first social work role.To support this, we are piloting a new approach for our newly qualified Children and Families’ Social Workers who are entering our Family Support and Safeguarding teams. This collaboration brings together the Family Support and Safeguarding Service, our Learning and Development Service and our Children’s Social Care Development Academy into an integrated offer for colleagues embarking on their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme. We are looking for two Social Care Practice Development Leads (SCPDL) to manage and work alongside a group of 4 NQSWs who collectively form a Practice Development Pod. Each pod comprises 4 NQSWs and one SCPDL, and we are creating 2 new pods, ready for when our next cohort of NQSWs join us in May 2025. These roles are offered on a fixed term basis until January 2028, applications are welcomed from both internal and external applicants and for existing Cambridgeshire County Council employees, this can be offered as an internal secondment opportunity. For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Lollita Masuku on 01223 507121 or lollita.masuku@cambridgeshire.gov.ukAppointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.About youYou will be an experienced social worker with recent family safeguarding experience. You will be someone who inspires others, is enthusiastic about ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. You will be comfortable with delivering change and can adapt and work flexibly in an evolving environment. You will have a passion and commitment for supporting and developing adult learners as they begin their social work career. You will advocate good practice and allow practitioners to reflect on their practice creating a learning environment which enables them to increase their skills and knowledge as they work with increasingly complex cases.You will be generous with sharing your knowledge and expertise and will be skilled in breaking down processes and work tasks into smaller components and will be able to explain things clearly and sequentially to support NQSWs to flourish in their roles. You will have experience of supporting colleagues to develop in role and you may have gained this as a Social Work Practice Educator (PEPS 2) and/or ASYE assessor If you don’t already have your PEPS 2 qualification, you will be supported to achieve this as it is an expectation of the role. You should understand how professional learning occurs in the workplace and the support elements that can sustain this. An understanding of project planning and quality assurance of assessment is also required, along with strong analytical and communication skills, both verbal and written.You must:Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration.Be able to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.The post holder will be based in our Stanton House office in Huntingdon, and will need to arrange their working week to be alongside the NQSWs who will have Fawcett House as their primary work base and the postholder should expect to be regularly with the NQSWs in Fawcett House. The NQSWs will also be in engaged in visits and community work, which they may need support with and may need be accompanied for. At Cambridgeshire County Council, we know that we work better if we can have flexibility in our working arrangements, and we want to help everyone achieve this, so please talk to us about the working pattern that would most suit you to be successful in this role. For more information or to chat about this opportunity, please contact Lollita Masuku on 01223 507121 or email lollita.masuku@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Interviews are planned to take place on 27/03/2025About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers