Experienced Social Worker
- Employer
- Torbay Council
- Location
- Torbay, Devon
- Salary
- £34,788 - £37,849
- Closing date
- 6 Nov 2020
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- Job Sector
- Children, Families, Young People
- Job Role
- Qualified Social Worker
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Join Torbay Children's Services as an Experienced Social Worker and you'll be part of a resurgent team taking an ambitious new approach to very challenging work.
Child abuse, exploitation and neglect don’t just damage young lives, they destroy promising futures before they even get a chance to be lived. Our fight against this social disease has gone up several gears.
Our transformation has lowered caseloads, increased training and supervision, developed brilliant external partnerships and introduced sector-leading technology.
And it's starting to bear fruit. OFSTED concluded that the ‘Senior Leadership Team is now well placed to continue to deliver the ambitious and well targeted plan.’ As part of our improvement journey, we are looking to recruit experienced social workers across a number of key teams including Safeguarding and Supporting Families, Single Assessment and Children Looked After.
Good social workers are at the heart of everything we do. You'll manage a complex, varied caseload, as well as acting as a mentor to less experienced team members - providing them with coaching and guidance so that they can develop their skills to support families to build resilience and facilitate positive change.
In return, you can look forward to a career-defining Academy that champions and underpins personal and professional growth. Not to mention our reflective supervision model that is a vibrant mix of informal and structured oversight, offering you protected time to think.
Furthermore, you will receive a comprehensive and rewarding all-round package, excellent training and development, subsidised parking, good administrative support and high-quality technology.
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Company
Our key message is that this is a great place to live and work and a really exciting time to join us. Do not let the sunny seaside town image fool you. We have more than our fair share of deprivation, worklessness and families under real pressure. There may be palm trees fringing the seafront - but far too many children live in poverty (24.6%) and far too many children are in need of safeguarding (250 Children Looked After as of the 1 July 2012). But this is a really exciting time to join us. We have a new senior management team, a new improvement plan and are under no illusions of the improvements we have to make over the next year.
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