Permanent
Fulltime 37 hours per week or Partime 18.5 hours a week
EDS roles also offer 20% unsocial hours allowance in addition to your base line salary
Following our recent exciting and pioneering Emergency Duty Service (EDS) redesign, we are looking for Advanced Children’s Social Workers to join our passionate and dedicated team to further enhance our service delivery;
About us
Our Emergency Duty Service (EDS) currently provides urgent social care responses for vulnerable children & adults out-of-hours.
Following our new innovative EDS re-design, we are excited to announce that we are launching a new pioneering model for our out of hours services in Devon County Council. This revised service will be introduced in October 2022 and will involve implementing specialist service models for our 3 core EDS services (Adults, Childrens and Mental Health) which will provide an improved, streamlined way of partnership working.
This initiative includes significant new investment and staffing levels and will enable increased positive outcomes for our children, young people and their families / carers, and to vulnerable adults and people experiencing mental health crises going forward.
As a place to live and work, Devon is hard to beat. We want you to grow and develop with us. In recognition of the vital contribution you will make, we offer an attractive package including:
About you
If you feel you have all the above and would like to be part of this innovative new approach from the outset, we would love to hear from you, so apply today!
If you have any queries about the role or would like an informal discussion, please contact Karen Careford, EDS Service Manager – karen.careford@devon.gov.uk 07967 472934
Interviews will be held on 2nd & 3rd November 2022.
Job Description
What we can offer you
Working for Devon County Council has all the benefits that you can expect from a large employer.
In return for the vital contribution that you make, we offer: