About the role:
This a full-time post based within the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children’s Social Work Team which sits in Derbyshire’s Leaving Care Service. This enables excellent transitions to adulthood and excellent working relationships. Derbyshire also benefits from specialist UASC Virtual school workers. The post is based in Chesterfield, in a thriving young person hub/office space. Derbyshire benefits from a longstanding, specialist UASC Social Work team.
Embedded within the team and service is a trauma informed, relationship based culture with high support, expectations and outcomes for our children.
We support newly qualified social workers to progress in their career through supportive frameworks and excellent progression opportunities. We work hard to ensure that our social workers have the time and resources to deliver good outcomes for children and families. Our vision means working creatively to inspire and empower children, young people, and their families to be the best they can be.
What will you be doing?
- Provide a quality social work service that supports children to achieve their potential.
- Effectively manage a number of young people to achieve the best outcomes for them.
- Working in partnership with individuals build and sustain relationships, identify needs, and develop plans and responses that meet those needs.
What skills and experience do you need?
- BA Honours in Social Work and current Social Work England registration (refer to job and person profile for more information).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a person-centred approach to building a rapport and relationships with children and families.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling flexible and thoughtful social work practice and positive change.
- Experience of relationship focused social work.
More exciting news – we've revamped our payment packages to attract and retain top talent like you. Successful candidates will enjoy competitive salaries, ensuring that their hard work is both rewarding and fulfilling.
- Grade 9 - £35,963 pro rata made up of:
o Basic salary per annum: £31,963
o Market supplement payment per annum: £4,000 pro rata
- Grade 10 - £36,245 - £39,239 pro rata made up of:
o Basic salary per annum: £33,034 to £36,239 pro rata
o Market supplement payment per annum: £3,000 pro rata
- Grade 11 - £39,339 - £42,638 pro rata made up of:
o Basic salary per annum: £37,339 to £40,638 pro rata
o Market supplement payment per annum: £2,000 pro rata
We believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package to our social workers that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:
- manageable case loads
- diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
- effective leadership and management which helps to reduce risk for our social workers and the children and families they support
- excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
- accelerated pay progression opportunities for frontline social workers following their ASYE
- systemic training equivalent to a foundation level Post Graduate Certificate
- access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities, worth over £5000, including leadership and management development
- Corporate membership with Research in Practice – allowing access to reputable, evidence-based research, training, and resources
- fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways
- DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
- Social Work England registration fee reimbursed
For more information on Children and Family services and becoming a social worker in Derbyshire please visit https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social-health/children-and-families/social-worker-recruitment/be-a-social-worker-for-derbyshire.aspx
If you would like to talk to someone informally about this post, please contact Team Manager, Natalie Sempers. Natalie/sempers@derbyshire.gov.uk
What benefits do we offer you?
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme
- travel expenses
- discount on leisure centre memberships
- free car parking at most sites
- an in-house counselling service
- occupational health service
- access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist
- cycle to work scheme
