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Location

Salford, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

Salford City Council

Salford Civic Centre

Chorley Road

Swinton

M27 5AW

Social Workers Level 2 & 3
Grade: Level 2 - 3C (£36,648 - £39,186), Level 3 - 4A (£40,221 - £43,421)

Working hours: 36 hours per  week

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 15th April 2024 (We are holding interviews as applications are received) 

#bestinthenorthwest

We are on our way to achieving our goal to provide Outstanding support and care to children, families, carers and practitioners across Salford. We are investing in the right social workers to get us there across our teams from newly qualified social workers to team managers including those who are looking to relocate to the area.    

We are expanding our teams and holding interviews as applications are received for our teams in:

• Duty and Assessment Team
• Child in Need and Child Protection Team
• Stepping Stones Cared for Team.

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Whether this is your first social worker role that you are applying for or whether you are a seasoned veteran, what we want from our practitioners will be the same. We want the people families we help to live good, safe and healthy lives in the place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing what matters to them. 

In Salford, we are interested in you as a person and the practitioner you are or who you aspire to be. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Building trusted relationships while making sure peoples wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision making.
• Having conversations with people based on what matters most to them.
• Connecting people to wider networks of opportunity and support. 
• Increasing peoples creative potential and self-esteem. 
• Responding quickly to crisis and sticking with children and families until things are better. 
• Keeping in touch with children, young people and families and taking a genuine interest in how they are and if anything needs to change. 
• Being ambitious, curious with a desire to learn and reflect. 

Our offer to you:

• Up to 34 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays). 
• Competitive salary following pay and grading review in 2023.
• Free parking and essential car user allowance.
• Hybrid working giving flexibility for you to manage your diary and offer a better work/life balance.
• Recently refurbished office space with free parking on site. The majority of our teams are sat together in Swinton at Unity House.
• Rich in resources to help you with any child or family you work with. 
• Robust training offer and mentoring scheme to support you with your career and aspirations. 
• A comprehensive Wellbeing Offer 
• Regular, quality, reflective supervision from a consistent management and leadership team.

Our friendly teams could talk your socks off when it comes to all things Social Work. If you are interested in knowing more about the make-up of our teams, how we work, our offer to you please visit: 

We appreciate you may want to have a look around our offices, meet some staff or your future potential teams and shadow– we’re happy to arrange this. We'd love to hear from you and find out more about what you're looking for so if you'd like to talk to us please just drop a quick message to [email protected] and we'll get a call arranged. We look forward to hearing from you!

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. 

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at .

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£40k per annum