Our Family Assessment and Support Teams work with a range of children, their families, carers, and networks. This includes children in need, children subject to child protection plans, and those requiring public law proceedings.
A good understanding of the relevant legislation, practice, and court processes is essential. In NYC, we offer extensive training and learning opportunities to support your continual professional development, covering 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 them and their families, believing that each child has a supportive network that is essential to engage with.
The role is varied; no two days are the same. One day you may be completing words and pictures with a family, and the next, supporting a young person with complex needs and family circumstances. We work with all young people from birth to age 18, maintaining strong links with external agencies and teams in North Yorkshire.
The team consists of a Team Manager and Practice Supervisors who support all Social Workers. Dedicated business support allows Social Workers to spend more time with children, young people, and their families. We have a well-defined supervision policy that includes regular group and individual supervisions, along with 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 our approach to working with families, ensuring that no two plans look the same. Social Workers benefit from new technology that helps free up time to spend away from the computer and with young people.
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 individuals wanting to become Qualified Social Workers.
For more information regarding our service, our practice model, what we offer, 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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