Our Family Assessment and Support Teams work with a range of children and their families, carers, and networks. This includes children in need, children subject to child protection plans, and those where public law proceedings are needed.
A good understanding of all these aspects of legislation, practice, and court processes is essential. In NYC, we offer extensive training and learning opportunities to support your continual professional development, including our defined practice model, Systemic, signs of safety, and family seeing/network training.
We have high aspirations for our young people and strive to work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families, believing that each child and young person has a network around them that is essential to work alongside and tap into.
The role is varied; no two days look the same for workers. One day you may be completing words and pictures with a family, while the next you could be supporting a young person with complex needs and family circumstances. We work with all young people from birth to the age of 18, maintaining strong links with other external agencies and teams in North Yorkshire.
The team consists of a Team Manager and Practice Supervisors to support all our Social Workers. We have dedicated business support to enable Social Workers to spend more time with children, young people, and their families. Our well-defined supervision policy includes regular group supervisions, individual supervisions, and opportunities to participate in County Wide practice model sessions and engage in appreciative inquiry and conversation cafés about practice with our Principal Social Worker.
The team is creative in how we work with families, and no two plans look the same. Social Workers are supported by new technology, allowing them to spend more time with young people rather than at the computer.
We are looking for Social Workers with at least two years of post-qualifying experience and a ‘can do’ attitude who are child-focused, think outside the box, and are creative in their planning with children.
Be the change you trained to be.
For an informal conversation about the role or the service, please contact Steph Carter, Team Manager at Steph.Carter5@northyorks.gov.uk.
If you are interested in a career in Social Work and would like more information, please contact Samantha Clayton (Head of Effective Practice & QA) at Samantha.Clayton@northyorks.gov.uk. We have many opportunities to support people wanting to become Qualified Social Workers.
For more information regarding our service, our practice model, what we can offer you, and to meet some of our team and leaders, please visit: www.northyorks.gov.uk/childrenssocialworker.
We welcome individuals looking to relocate; for further information, please see our Relocation Policy.
We look forward to hearing from you.
To apply, please click the Apply Now link below.
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