Tameside Council
Location
Tameside, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £37,336 to Scale 34 - £42,403 with a professional bar at Scale 31- £39,186**
Hours: 36 hours per week (flexible working options are welcome)
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Closing Date: Sunday, 17th March 2024
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The role
We are looking for enthusiastic, innovative and committed Social Workers to join us in our duty and locality teams. The duty team will take cases from the point of referral, complete assessments, strategy meetings, initiate legal proceedings and PLO where required and the case will then transfer to our long term team thereafter. The long term teams will work with children and families needing longer term support under Child in Need, Child Protection, Public Law Outline and Care Proceedings.
About you
You will be either newly qualified or an experienced Social Worker with previous child care social work experience. With good needs assessment and risk assessment skills you will be able to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary system, as well as in a team across the service and with other agencies.
Why work for us?
Our new staff are telling us that the refreshed Children’s Services induction programme is GREAT and the most comprehensive they have seen.
We are also really proud to hear that staff are feeling valued and included:
You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.
In Tameside, we like to look after our employees and offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:
Be that difference and find out more information why you should work for us
For further information or informal discussion please contact Daniel Murphy, Service Unit Manager on 0161 342 4366 or [email protected].
When filling in your application form, please refer to the job description and person specification available within the Candidate Information Pack below.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
This post requires an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
All appointments will be to the bottom salary point in the grade with annual incremental progression each April until the grade maximum is reached. Where an individual can provide evidence that their existing salary in a relevant role surpasses the grade starting salary, a higher entry salary will be considered, subject to the professional grade development criteria also being met if that point is higher than the bar point.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
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Reference No: DPT500
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£37.34k per annum
