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Location

Blackwood, Caerphilly | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Summary

To lead on the social work qualifying internal sponsorship route and contribute to the delivery of the Social Work Strategy for Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly Councils.

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Collaboration and customer focus are key drivers for our service. The Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly Workforce Development Service has a growing customer base of more than 6,500. We have a fresh and modern business acumen with the ambition to diversify.

As a Senior Social Work Practitioner, you will be part of a passionate and ambitious team. If you have lots of energy and enthusiasm and get a true sense of achievement by making a positive difference, then you will fit right in. You will need to have welcoming confidence, thrive on challenge, and have a can-do buzz about you.

Our Social Work Strategy delivers for the social work profession and our communities. You will focus on sponsored students and through the strategy you will be making a valuable contribution to recruitment, retention, professional progression with newly qualified, CPD initiatives, and aspiring social care management. If you would like to include any of this in a description of your best developmental achievements, then this could be the opportunity for you.

You will have students reporting to you looking to you for guidance, critique, and motivation. Working closely with service management and the students you will celebrate success, quality assure, and manage disappointment. Leading tomorrow’s potential to being qualified professionals will be something that drives and rewards you.

If we and the role sound great for you then your application may well reflect:

• Social Work and Practice Educator/Assessor Qualified and registered with Social Care Wales.
• Working or collaborating with universities may feature in your experience.
• People you have assessed, supervised, or managed will have told you that you have an empowering, motivating, and compassionate style and that you drive them to succeed and feel good.
• You can transfer learning into practice and know how best to guide other professionals in collaborative conversations that make a difference.
• Others you work with see you as organised and a supportive driver when they have set deadlines to meet.
• You are known for adherence to the code of professional practice and ensuring those entering into the profession practice at the standard required.
• When you provide feedback, it is clear, constructive, honest, and sometimes hard to hear if it needs to be.
• You will be able and confident to travel to various locations locally and beyond.

The Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly Workforce Development Service is a pioneer, using innovative and fresh approaches in the way that it works and delivers. The service drives itself to be the best at what it does, and it needs the best skills and enthusiasm to fuel the successful results that the Social Work Strategy achieves.

If you would like to talk to us about the role please make contact with Cheri Jones or Jane Haile on [email protected] or [email protected]

Thorough pre-employment screening is undertaken during the recruitment process. The postholder will be required to complete an application for a Disclosure of Criminal Records.

Closing Date: 21st March 2024 – 12:00am, midnight

Interview Date: 12th or 18th April 2024

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Salary

£42.4k - £46.46k per annum