Social Worker Children with Disabilities

About the Team:

The Children with Disabilities Team supports children with complex and profound disabilities.

The team is passionate about working with children, families and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for vulnerable children. The team undertake Family Help Assessments and works with Children in Need, children subject to Child Protection Plans and Children in Care. A multi-disciplinary approach is modelled in the team in partnership with both universal and mainstream services to support children, young people and their families.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire embeds its Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education. Find out why we are good Ofsted.

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

We are recruiting for 3 roles in of our Children with Disabilities Team based in Nuneaton covering Nuneaton, Bedworth and North Warwickshire. One position is part time for 30 hours per week and on a permanent contract basis. The second position is part time for 22.5 hours per week and is fixed term contract for 12 months. The third is 37 hours per week and permanent.

• You will be based at our Hillary Road Office in Nuneaton
• Your working pattern will be confirmed depending on the role. Core working hours are 9am
  -5.30pm Monday
  -Thursday and 9am - 5pm on a Friday,
• Occasionally we may ask that you work outside of your working hours for example, in an emergency,
• We offer a mixture of office and home based working. The expectation is you are office based at least twice per week.

• We are looking for ambitious, professional, conscientious social workers to join our team.
• Ideally, you will need to have experience of children and young people with complex needs and disabilities.
• Be knowledgeable around the challenges experienced by families as a whole and have experience supporting children and their families.
• You will be a team player, working with colleagues in a range of disciplines, sharing knowledge, and providing support and advice to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and their families.
• Have experience of writing statutory assessments, child protection and court work.

• Year 1 Newly Qualified Social Worker
  - Grade J
• Year 2 Social Worker
  - Grade K
• Year 3 Senior Social Worker
  - Grade L
• Year 4 Advanced Social Worker
  - Grade N

Pay scale dependant on level and experience ranging from J-N.

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit:
Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts…