About the Team:
The Emergency Duty Team working hours are for night owls, working evenings, weekends and bank holidays and it certainly offers more than just a change of hours. Each EDT shift is a new day and comes with new challenges each time and ranges from offering support, advice and guidance to families and professionals, supporting as an Appropriate Adult for young people in custody out of hours, assessing risk and making decisions to ensure the immediate safety of children, young people, families and vulnerable adults, but also ensuring families are supported where required by daytime teams.
Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education. Find out why we are good Ofsted.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.
Our Offer to you includes:
* Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
* Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
* A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.
* We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply.
About the Role:
We are recruiting for the role of Advanced Practitioner in our Emergency Duty Team covering Warwickshire on a permanent basis, with a salary of up to £46,731.00 per annum (with an extra enhancement of 23% on top of the salary to account for working evenings, weekends and bank holidays). Relocation Allowance up to £8,000 is available - T&C's apply.
We require someone with:
* Professional Social Work qualification (MA/BA/BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work or Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW)).
* In depth experience in children's and/or adult’s social work and experience of complex cases.
* Ability to work jointly with other professionals out of hours whilst also ensuring respectful challenge where appropriate.
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to make well-informed decisions, including making decisions as a link to the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team in respect of child protection processes.
* Ability to record and produce concise, effective, and accurate reports with sound rationale, judgements and decision-making based on sometimes limited information.
* Good communication skills with the ability to build relationships, and engage with children and families, including the flexibility to complete home visits where required.
Key Requirements:
Warwickshire County Council’s Out of Hours Emergency Social Work Duty Team are looking to appoint Level 4 Advanced/Enhanced Advanced Practitioner with experience in working with children and/or adults, who are able to work autonomously and independently and within a multi-agency arena. Applicants will need to have 4/5+ years post qualification experience in children and adult services.
You will be joining a cohesive team of enthusiastic, motivated, and supportive Social Workers and Family Support Workers of mixed levels of experience. Equally, we have a strong and experienced management group who work hard to promote a consistently good standard of Social Work practice using a restorative approach, which is then reflected in the way we support our families also.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
Additional Information:
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
This role requires employees to undergo Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV). This process ensures that individuals who are not police staff but have physical or remote access to police premises, information, intelligence, financial, or operational assets are assessed for their reliability and integrity. This assessment determines their suitability for clearance to work within police premises.
To discuss the role please contact Claire Reynolds, clairereynolds@warwickshire.gov.uk
Closing Date: 21st April 2025
Interview Date: 29th April 2025
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See?more
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