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Senior Social Worker - Childrens

Employer
Wigan Council
Location
Wigan
Salary
Grade 10, £37,890 - £41,881 per annum
Closing date
19 Sep 2021

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Senior Social Worker - Childrens

 

Wigan Council

Wigan Life Centre South
College Avenue
Wigan
WN1 1NJ

Your role:


In Children’s Social Care, we want to support all children in Wigan to be happy, healthy and safe; to feel listened to and to have the maximum opportunities to be ambitious. We recognise that social workers have one of the most challenging but rewarding roles.

We value our social workers; the fantastic work they do and the resilience they show by overcoming challenges every day. Our Senior Social Workers will be responsible for managing risk and care planning and to help make sure our children are safe and they are fulfilling their aspirations. This role will work closely with children and families, social work practitioners and partners across the borough.

This role is an amazing opportunity to support our most vulnerable children and families. You will be a highly experienced social worker, and relish the opportunity to work in a fast paced, creative and supportive environment.

You will readily share your knowledge and skills to contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement, by mentoring, coaching and support others to achieve a shared goal of improving outcomes for children and their families.

You will ensure that practice is underpinned by the Deal principals and our practice standards, and that the Signs of Safety model is embedded in our work with children and families, by championing this model.

We are currently advertising for Senior Social Workers in our duty, locality and children in care teams, and whilst being based in one of these service areas, you will be courageous by working across the service where necessary to meet demand. Please stipulate on your application form your preferred service area.

About you:

You will be an experienced, innovative, confident and energetic practitioner, committed to achieving positive change for children and families and supporting your colleagues to learn, develop and deliver consistently good social work practice.

You will be a qualified social worker, with significant experience of social work practice within the field of social work with children and families, using a strengths-based practice model, with a proven track record of success.

You will be motivating, courageous, flexible and willing and able to work across services, as necessary, in order to meet demand, and will be an expert in your field, with the ability to advise, support, mentor and coach others, whilst being responsible for your own caseload.

You will lead by example in embracing change and supporting your team through this positively. You will also support our services to maximise and improve use of technology to facilitate improved practice.

You will have a keen interest in learning from case reviews, audits and complaints, and disseminating that learning, and will support the workforce to close the loop following audit activity to support continuous improvement.

You will have excellent analytical and judgemental skills to analyse, risk assess and interpret complex information or situations and to solve difficult problems or develop solutions and plans. You will be able to think quickly and creatively to help overcome complex challenges and issues. Your highly developed interpersonal and caring skills will help you to meet the needs of children, young people and their families, and you will be able to motivate and empower children and families to reach and achieve their own solutions, by being kind and helping them make long-term sustainable family plans.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGC Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

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Covid Safe

Wigan Council are proud to be a Covid safe organisation. For some of this role you will be required to work from home and connect with your team and others virtually. However, there may be occasions where you are required to go into a council building to carry out part of your role. The health and wellbeing of our staff is of utmost importance to us and if you are required to use a council building, a risk assessment will be conducted beforehand and the appropriate safety measures put in place.

For further information, please contact Rebecca Sutton at Rebecca.sutton@wigan.gov.uk

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Interview date: Week Commencing Monday 27 September 2021

Interviews will be held remotely

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This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check

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Here at Wigan Council, we believe our workforce is our greatest asset and we will ensure you have the right support and a positive working environment to deliver outstanding social care to children, young people and families.

We have ambitious plans for the future which are outlined in our Deal 2030.  Our Children’s Services has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the year.’

We want you to be a part of our team; to benefit from career and development opportunities, flexible working and help make a real difference for children, young people and families in our borough.

For further information, please contact Rebbeca.sutton@wigan.gov.uk

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