Careers in children's services

This is an exciting time to join our Children's Services team.

Our new Director of Children's Services, Majella McCarthy joined us in April and comes with over 20 years of experience. Majella is a former social worker who helped deliver an 'Outstanding' children's service offer and is here to help us on our improvement journey.

Majella has a clear vision to improve outcomes for children and families across the Borough and we are looking to strengthen our workforce to support us on this journey.

We have a range of work roles available, where you will be joining a ambitious organisation and Children's Service, which have huge potential and an empowering culture. You'll also be coming to a place on the journey of significant transformation that will change lives for generations to come.

Therapeutic roles on offer

We will soon be launching a therapeutic children's home. This is a great career opportunity to work with young people with complex therapeutic, emotional wellbeing or mental health needs in a new way.

Staff will be trained with relevant skills and knowledge to support children and young people with complex needs.

The roles on offer are:

All our vacancies can be viewed on our job vacancies page.

Our pledge to you

We'll support you to flourish and be the best you can, delivering a high-quality service and working closely with professionals from a range of agencies to improve the lived experience of children.

Learning opportunities

We have a tailored training programme aligned with the Continuous Professional Framework, as well as multi-agency safeguarding training from our safeguarding partnership. Learning includes:

all qualified social workers are entitled to five days of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) each year
face to face events - a mix of taught sessions, workshops, conferences and briefings
digital - including online learning and subscriptions
a coaching approach - supporting the development of staff by bringing learning into the workplace
sharing of lessons learned - operational experience, review recommendations and evidence of good practice
shadowing and secondment opportunities

Assessed and Supported Year in Employment development programme

We are expanding our current Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (AYSE) offer, with a focus on high quality bespoke and group learning.

Our offer

In addition to excellent career progression opportunities, with a clear and supported development path, we also offer agile working, with flexible and family friendly policies, that have a work-life balance at their core. As well as the usual employee benefits you'll get:

reimbursement of your Social Work England registration fee
robust professional development, including 5 CPD days every year
progression based on your readiness, not team quotas
regular, high-quality case and reflective supervision
great admin support for your paperwork
a contracted provider to facilitate supervised contacts
a workload management system
a paid subscription to Community Care Inform Children
clear and supported career progression

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