Social Worker - SEND Family Service

Social Worker –SEND Family Help Service.

Salary - £42,708 - £47,754 (Grade
7)

Hours - 37 hours per week

Contract type - full time, permanent

Work style - Field: working in communities across the city

About the Service

The SEND Family Help Service has been developed in line with innovative Family First for Children Pathfinder.

Wolverhampton is a leading local authority, being one of the first local authorities to reform our service delivery, enabling a creative supportive and empowering approach; providing the right help at the right time for children and families.

Our service supports children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary model.

We work in partnership with families and professionals across health, education and social care to deliver integrated, strengths-based support, using a whole-family approach.

Our goal is to help families access the right services early, reduce escalation, support preparation for adulthood, and improve outcomes across education, health, and social care.

We are looking for committed social workers, to support our children and young people 0-18 with Special Educational Needs and disabilities.

In Wolverhampton we are ambitious for our social workers, passionate about excellent, relational social work practice and courageous in our innovation, with leaders who are visible and responsive.

We need people like you who want to make a real difference in the lives of children and families and will support us to deliver excellent services to the most vulnerable children in our City.

If you are someone who is passionate and tenacious, wants to do the best job possible and is committed to excellent social work practice and achieving the very best for our Children, Young People and Families then we want to hear from you!

At the award-winning City of Wolverhampton Council, we work restoratively with children and families, building strong relationships and connections to help them find long-lasting solutions.

Our vision for the Children and Young People Services is:

• To develop respectful and empowering relationships with children, young people and families
• To ensure children are at the centre of everything we do
• High aspirations, high expectations

We are a forward-thinking, responsive and innovative organisation and want our social workers to spend their time building relationships with families to achieve real, sustainable change.

We focus on teams having manageable workloads and we have a clear development pathway alongside a substantial training and development offer which is varied and responsive to practice challenges. Our senior managers and leaders are visible and take the time to listen to frontline employees.

We are proud to say we are Ofsted rated Good with Outstanding features and have fully embedded a Restorative Practice approach.

Expectations of the role

• Lead Direct Practice: Conduct incisive Family help discussions, devise bespoke intervention plans, and coordinate wrap-around support tailored to each child’s needs.
• Relevant Experience: Proven work with children with disabilities, including assessments, care planning, and crisis intervention.
• Escalation reduction implements targeted interventions and mobilise resources swiftly to reduce family’s needs escalating.
• Drive Multi-Agency Coordination: Chair and contribute to integrated planning meetings, delivering a multiagency approach to deliver seamless, child focused, holistic support.
• Legislative & Safeguarding Knowledge:
  Have a good understanding of child protection frameworks, relevant statutes, and best-practice guidance.
• Implement Our Graduated Model: Translate the Pathfinder’s revolutionary graduated approach into practice, focusing on early intervention and adjusting support precisely as families’ needs evolve.
• Preparation for Adulthood: Embed transition-focused work, preparing young people with SEND for independence, life skills, and community inclusion.
• Champion Reflective Practice:
  Actively engage in reflective supervision, bring your insights to team learning huddles, and apply creative problem-solving to elevate your own practice and support better…