Permanent,
Full Time 37 hours per week
Children in our Care Service
Various Locations
MORE THAN JUST A JOB, WE OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY TO GROW
Bring your skills and passion to our team and join us as an Experienced Social Worker in our Children in our Care Teams within our Corporate Parenting Service. This is a great opportunity to grow your social work career with an ambitious authority at a time of exciting change. We’ve embedded our restorative practice approach across our teams and have invested in training our all practitioners and managers to build and maintain positive relationships with our children and families.
About the role
Our Children in our Care service are responsible for managing a wide range of statutory and non-statutory duties to our children and young people in care, ensuring safe and thriving placements. The casework is varied, and you will be working creatively and flexibly to promote positive long-term change and ensure permanence from the outset.
Working closely with your skilled social work team, which includes family practitioners and business support to assist you in your duties, you will champion high standards of professional social work practice. You will be used to working at pace in a high pressurised working environment, to ensure no drift and delay for our families, with good quality assessments to ensure improved consistent outcomes for our children and young people.
One of our Experienced Social Workers says:I completed my ASYE with Devon County Council. From the day I realised I wanted to become a social worker; I knew I wanted to work for Devon County Council.
After I completed my ASYE I decided to remain with Devon County Council, now as an Experienced Social Worker within the same team. I want to commit to the children and families in the county I live in and to provide some consistency for the families I work with.
I have regular appraisals which help me to work towards my professional goals. I aim to develop my social work career within Devon. I also really enjoy being part of my team, who are supportive, restorative and really care about the work we do.
Hannah, Experienced Social Worker
About you
You will be an advocate for the children and young people you are working with, ensuring each child has an active, up-to-date plan, and young people are supported as they transition to adulthood. You will need to have:
* Exceptions may apply under the Equality Act
What we can offer you
In recognition of the vital contribution you make, we offer an attractive package of benefits including:
If you’re looking to move to Devon, subject to qualifying conditions, we offer a generous relocation allowance. There’s never been a better time to make the move!
Click HERE to find out more about all our benefits.
Presence in the office is vital to embed positive relationships from the outset. This is complimented by our hybrid working model, whilst still delivering the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Click HERE to hear from our workforce about working for us and why you should join our Children’s Services. Click HERE to find out what our children and young people want to see from our workforce. #TogetherWeCan
Please indicate which locality you prefer on your supporting statement
Visit our factsheet to find out more about living and working in Devon.
To arrange an informal discussion, please email childsc.recruitmentchildrenssocialwork-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
Please be aware that interviews will take place throughout our recruitment campaign, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment as we may close the advert early.
Join us and make a difference in the lives of our children - click apply now!
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