Complex Safeguarding Social Worker (Part-Time)
Stockport
Part Time
Permanent
Expires 21/04/2025
About the Role
Complex Safeguarding Social Worker (Part-Time)
SO2 (£36,124 - £40,476 pro-rata, actual salary £18,062 - £20,238) plus 5% market supplement
18.5 hours per week, Part-Time, with some out of hours work as required. Days to be agreed.
Permanent
Hybrid: Fred Perry House and homeworking
Application Deadline: Monday 21 April 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: Wednesday 23 April 2025
Interview Date: Monday 28 & Tuesday 29 April 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Stockport’s Youth Justice & Complex Safeguarding Service for a part-time, 18.5 hours, complex safeguarding social worker. This is a permanent position.
Stockport’s Youth Justice & Complex Safeguarding Service is made up of an enthusiastic and committed staff group, who have a passion for working with adolescents to prevent and reduce harm by adopting a ‘child-first’ approach.
Our complex safeguarding team is co-located with Police, health and missing from home officers and is part of an aligned service with Youth Justice, ensuring seamless support to children and young people where exploitation and vulnerability to extra-familial harm is a concern.
Your Role
We are looking for a part-time (18.5 hours a week) social worker who has a strong grounding in statutory children’s social work, with experience of court processes, including an understanding of DOLS. You will be co-allocated, alongside locality social workers, to work with children, usually over the age of 10, to support them where there is vulnerability to, or evidence of child exploitation, including sexual and criminal exploitation, and modern slavery.
You will have excellent knowledge of adolescent development, child exploitation and trafficking, and be able to share expert knowledge with other social workers to increase awareness and support their decision-making, including contribution to strategy meetings. You will be skilled at forming relationships with young people who may mistrust professionals, and where you will need to demonstrate creativity, tenacity and patience to form trust.
You will be flexible in your approach, with an ability to respond to young people at critical moments (which may require some flexibility of working hours, in discussion/agreement with your line manager).
About You
You will be an experienced social worker (2 years post-qualified), with a passion for working with adolescents.
You will contribute to awareness raising across the council, including the Week of Action for exploitation twice per year, and input at regular training and development events.
You will need a car for work each day, and business insurance that allows you to transport young people. There may be some travel outside of Stockport to meet the needs of children and young people where they live and spend time.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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