Social Worker

Salary:  £32,234- £ £36,922 per annum (pro rata)

 37 Hours per week – Fixed Term until 31^st March 2021

Staffordshire County Council is recruiting a temporary full time Social Worker to work in the Intensive Interventions Fostering Team offering support to foster carers and placements across the team but primarily within the Turnaround, Residential to Foster, and Resilience programmes. The team is located in Stafford but you will hold a caseload on a county wide basis. Residential to Foster and Resilience foster carers offer foster placements to young people who require a long term secure, family-based placement who currently reside in residential care. 

You will contribute to the recruitment, retention, placement matching, and supervision and support to Staffordshire’s Fostering households and to assist as required in the wider work of the Intensive Interventions Team. You will undertake a direct supervisory support role to foster carers and contribute to pre-placement assessments to ensure young people placed are safely supported and managed in a way that ensures the young person achieves positive outcomes during and beyond their placement experience. You will work directly with a range of multi-agency professionals to coordinate long and short-term placement needs.

You must be a qualified social worker with previous experience of fieldwork with children and/or foster carers. Newly qualified social workers with high potential are also encouraged to apply.

This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

This position is subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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Closing Date: 4^th December 2020
Interview Date: To be arranged  (if applicable)

Please be aware, only application forms completed online will be accepted. We will not accept CV’s or Word application forms.

Our Values

The County Council has adopted a set of values that seeks to achieve the best outcomes for its citizens, communities and employees.

Our People Strategy sets out what we all need to do to make Staffordshire County Council a great place to work, where people are supported to develop, flourish and contribute to our ambitious plans. 

Our values are at the heart of the Strategy to ensure that the focus is on what is important to the organisation and the people it serves:

• Ambitious - We are ambitious for our communities and citizens
• Courageous - We recognise our challenges and are prepared to make courageous decisions
• Empowering - We empower and support our people by giving them the opportunity to do their jobs well.

Benefits for working for us….

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits including:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement from 24 up to 33 days (plus 2 extra statutory days and bank holidays) depending on job role and length of service
• The option to buy up to an additional 2 weeks annual leave
• A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role, which includes agile working, flexible retirement
• Family Friendly Policies - maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave
• Volunteering Scheme
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• Access to health and wellbeing support (including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Counselling Services)
• Eye care vouchers
• Car lease scheme / cycle & car loan scheme / employee car share scheme
• Bus and rail travel discounts