09 Oct
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Ellesmere Port
Job description
We are recruiting an experienced Senior Social Worker within our Supporting Independence Team (formerly Leaving Care Team).
We are looking for an applicant who is experienced in working within a Permanence Service and can deliver high quality pathway planning to our young people.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.
We are looking for a highly motivated, reflective, and experienced practitioner to join the Supporting Independence Team (formerly Leaving Care Team) based at The Portal, Ellesmere Port.
You will be a strong team player with great communication skills and a commitment to working collaboratively.
A professional social work qualification is essential for this post.
The post holder will be an integral part of our Children’s Social Care Permanence Hub and will demonstrate the ability to be able to provide support and supervision to the Personal Advisors, if required.
You will also be the allocated social worker for a small group of young people who are in the care of the Local Authority, providing high quality pathway planning for our young people to transition into adulthood in the strongest position.
Our role as Corporate Parents in Cheshire West and Chester is both a privilege and a job we take seriously, therefore any candidates should be passionate about providing care, nurture and support for our young people.
Our practice model being Our Ways of Working is rooted in trauma informed practice meaning that candidates will have the opportunity to engage in bespoke trauma informed practice and motivational interview training to ensure the highest quality of care and planning for our young people.
Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children by providing a consistent, high-quality service to children and families, together with excellent working relationships with our partners and the support from a stable leadership and management team.
We are committed to a culture of shared learning and development in which you will have an active part to play in the continued progress of our services to children and families.
We have developed and embedded Our Way of Working’ with our multi-agency partners to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to our work with families using Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice.
You will be supported and encouraged to work creatively in planning and decision-making with children and their families and our partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes and with a focus on prevention at every level.
Our social workers will tell you : - They feel supported and part of a team. They have access to excellent training opportunities.
Managers at Cheshire West and Chester strive to make Social Workers feel valued and recognised, they are approachable, available and compassionate.
Social Workers are encouraged and supported to be creative and strive for excellence. They feel valued and supported by their team, manager, and the senior managers.
Our commitment and investment in professional development means that most of our Senior Practice Leads, Team Managers and some Senior Managers have progressed within our own organisation.
As a local authority, we continue to develop and enhance our social work offer to support and develop our valued workforce. We will offer you : -
- excellent work-life balance, flexible and remote working arrangements. We took the positives we learned from lockdown’ and kept them
- bright, modern, and recently refurbished office environments
- high quality progression and developmental opportunities
- competitive working rewards
- up to days flexi time’ per year as well as your annual leave
- high quality supervision
- strong reflective practice framework
- free parking at all our office locations
- we’ll pay your Social Work England registration
- excellent training opportunities
- re-location allowance in some circumstances
- competitive salary
As employers, we recognise that Cheshire West and Chester Council has a major role to play in improving the quality of life of its employees.
We are committed to agile flexible and mobile working and helping employees to maintain an effective balance between their work and home life.
The COVID lockdown has meant we have been able to improve our ability to work away from an office, to be more flexible and creative in the use of our time and maximising the use of technology, whilst at the same time ensuring we can come together as teams and with our support networks on a regular basis.
We have developed a new normal’ and this hybrid’ arrangement allows for us to be more flexible in how we provide services to children and families and an enhanced work / life balance to our Social Workers.
We have a strong and supportive political and senior leadership team with a wealth of experience and knowledge about children’s outcomes across the borough of Cheshire West and Chester.
▶️ Senior Social Worker - Supporting Independence Team
🖊️ Cheshire West and Chester Council
📍 Ellesmere Port