Social Worker - Family Safeguarding Service

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- Family Safeguarding Service role at Leicestershire County Council

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- Family Safeguarding Service role at Leicestershire County Council

This range is provided by Leicestershire County Council. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Come and be part of our Outstanding Family Safeguarding Service.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of Children and Family Services at Leicestershire County Council, our staff are at the heart of delivering excellent services to children and families across Leicestershire. Come and join us and make a difference in the lives of children and families in Leicestershire.

Our recent Ofsted inspection praised Leicestershire’s work to build “strong and long-lasting relationships” with children and families which lead to many families achieving “positive changes” in their lives. They highlighted an “ambitious and child-focused senior leadership that has successfully created a culture where the experiences and progress of children are at the heart of social work practice”.

You can read more about our Ofsted Outstanding rating here

About the Role

Our Family Safeguarding Service specialises in delivering high-quality Child Protection Services to children and families across Leicestershire. In this role, as an experienced social worker, you will have a focus on overseeing children subject to child protection plans, alongside pre-proceedings and care proceedings, and therefore experience in this area is essential.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.

• Have a social work degree or equivalent, e.g., CQSW or DipSW (with a specialism in children’s services).
• Be registered with Social Work England and have evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experienced in working in statutory child protection services and completion of Care Proceedings.
• Have a full valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative and relationship-based social work, working in collaboration with families and professionals. Ideally you will already be confident in the application of the Signs of Safety methodology.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for practice and be committed to helping us build a real culture of reflection and learning.
• Have retained a strong interest in research and the evidence base for practice and are confident about how this can be used in practice.

An Enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

** Please ensure your application includes a full career history and provides reasons for any gaps

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Learn more about how we are responding to trauma, taking pride in practice and celebrating our achievements in social work here.

We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and families.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please visit :

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