Children's Disability Social Worker

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Looking for a change? Where you can make a difference to the lives of disabled children and their families?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Permanent Children’s Disability Social Worker.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Social Worker to join our Stafford and South Staffordshire Children Disability team.

The position is Full Time, working 37 hours a week.

We have four Children’s Disability teams across the County, and they provide specialist services for children and young people with complex disabilities.

We are a dedicated team of professionals who work with disabled children and their families across Staffordshire; providing support and early interventions which have a positive impact on the lives of children and families and empower parents and carers to be confident in their role.

We deliver a restorative practice model that focuses on keeping families together through a community-based approach. If you’ve not worked in this way before, don’t worry – we’ll give you full training to bring you up to speed.

Working with us means collaborating across our different teams, and sharing best practice, knowledge, and experience to continually improve the way we do things. Support is important, as we work in a large county with some diverse challenges – but together we can meet all kinds of needs and demands.

As a Qualified Social Worker, you will be based within a team of Social Workers and Family Practitioners. You will be expected to be a team player and contribute to the development of the team and wider Disability Service. We do support hybrid working, with an expectation of two to three days being office based to support the wider team.

This role requires:

An ability to engage and communicate with disabled children is essential.

You to manage a caseload of varying complexity across Children in Need, Child Protection and Children in Care.

Multi-agency working with colleagues across a range of disciplines and services.

Completion of assessments, reports and records in a timely and accurate manner to support planning for children and their families.

Risk assessment and risk management skills to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Disabled Children and their families.

Supporting mediation, crisis prevention and conflict resolution.

Through all this great work you do, you’ll be supporting children and families, with a restorative practice approach, helping them stay together where possible.

The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:

Have an BA/MA Social Work Qualification, or equivalent certified by Social Work England.

Registration with Social Work England.

Experience of Children's Social Work.

Have a current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with disabled children and their families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.

Successful candidates will be notified by 13th November. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 23rd November.

For information, please note that there is currently an ongoing review within Children and Families to realign individual teams and the wider team’s ways of working. As a result, this role may be affected by the review. For further information, please speak to the hiring manager.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

Please note:
The minimum essential criteria in the ideal section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes.