Directorate: Children and Family Services

Section: Children's Social Care

Grade: Level 12

Hours: 37 hours per week

This advert is open to both internal and external applicants

Senior Children and Families Social Worker

Are you an experienced and passionate Social Worker looking for the next step in your career? Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking dedicated and visionary Senior Children and Families Social Workers to join our ambitious and supportive team. If you are committed to making a real difference in the lives of children and families, we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work: Play a vital role in transforming the lives of children in care, helping them build brighter futures.
• Supportive Culture: Work alongside experienced teams and a strong management team, ensuring you can focus on direct work with children
• Professional Growth: Benefit from our high-quality learning and development programme designed to enhance your skills and support your career progression.
• Thriving City: Be part of a community-driven city that values people and relationships, with a strong focus on economic growth, cultural vibrancy, and green spaces.  

Your Role: As a Senior Children and Families Social Worker, you will:

• Lead and Coordinate: Take the lead in fulfilling statutory responsibilities, overseeing children’s plans that are tailored, ambitious, and focused on achieving the best possible outcomes.
• Direct Engagement: Build meaningful, restorative relationships with children, supporting them in understanding their journeys and achieving permanency.
• Collaborate: Work closely with our Contact Service to ensure children maintain vital family connections, promoting strong support networks as they move towards independence.
• Drive Permanency Planning: Play a key role in shaping pathways to Adoption and Special Guardianship, supporting both the children and the team’s professional development.  

What We Offer:

We recognise and reward the dedication of our social work professionals with a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Up to 40 days annual leave (including 8 bank holidays)
• Option to buy extra annual leave Flexible and hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000 (subject to policy)
• Manageable caseloads to allow for high-quality, focused work
• High-quality reflective supervision for continued professional development
• Health and wellbeing support for you and your family
• Access to staff equality and diversity networks, creating a supportive and inclusive work environment  

Why Stoke-on-Trent?

Located in North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent is a city on the rise, known for its strong sense of community, economic growth, and cultural richness. With excellent transport links and a commitment to children and families, this is a place where you can truly make a difference while enjoying a great quality of life.

Join Us and Make an Impact

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and be part of a team that puts children and families at the heart of everything we do, apply now. Your next career milestone starts here at Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

To be considered for a position you must have a degree in Social Work or equivalent and be registered with Social Work England.

Want to know more and apply?

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Stoke-on-Trent City Council. As a potential employee, everyone who works for us must be committed to our stronger together vision ensuring we are working together to create a stronger city we can all be proud of.

If you are passionate about children and young people getting the right help at the right time, about listening to their voices, and about working in partnership with families and wider networks, then we would very much like to hear from you. 

Additional Information

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment.  This position is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together

Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority.  If this happens you will be advised accordingly.

To Apply

please visit our website https://webrecruitment.stoke.gov.uk/wrl/ If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.