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You'll based in Burton, Staffordshire, covering East Staffs and Tamworth.</p>\n\n<p>The work of our service is diverse across the breath of social work tasks and functions. This may include some occasional out of hours and weekend working. </p>\n\n<p>If you are confident and have the skills and experience to work within a busy Social Work team, then this is a fantastic opportunity for you to further your expertise.</p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You'll assist in facilitating behaviour management work, practical support and undertaking direct work with children and their families and carers whilst underpinning our restorative approach.</p>\n\n<p>You'll be expected to be creative and innovative with the ability to engage and communicate with disabled children and be committed to ensuring the children you support receive the best quality service.</p>\n\n<p>You'll also:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>work collaboratively with social workers to support children in need, children on child protection plans and children in care. </li>\n\t<li>develop, facilitate and organise family and professionals’ meetings, events and groups.</li>\n\t<li>provide transport and support to children and their families to a variety of situations including school, medical appointments, meetings and social activities working under the guidance of the allocated social worker.</li>\n\t<li>provide intensive support to children and families to enable them to remain together or where appropriate to support reunification of families.</li>\n\t<li>Work with children and families including contributing to assessments and providing practical support, this may include moving and handling, personal care, assistance with feeding, behaviour management and administration of medication (following training by a qualified professional and within guidance of an agreed care plan and risk assessment)</li>\n\t<li>be available outside of traditional working patterns including evening and weekends to provide support to children, families and carers when it is needed.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>This role is currently subject to a review of weekend working arrangements, including any paid enhancements.</strong></p>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>You will: </p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>hold a Minimum standard of NVQ3 in respect of working with children and their families together with previous experience working with children with disabilities</li>\n\t<li>the ability to engage and communicate with disabled children and their parents/carers</li>\n\t<li>have the ability to build relationships and deliver interventions to children, families and carers as well as being able to work effectively in conflict situations</li>\n\t<li>have the ability to use IT systems and to write a good standard of records</li>\n\t<li>have the commitment and ability demonstrate restorative approaches to working with children and families.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Interview date will be confirmed</p>\n\n<p>For more information about this role, please contact Natasha Davies, Team Manager, on <a href=\"mailto:natasha.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk\">natasha.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. 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We are both supportive and keen to make a real difference across all the work we deliver.</p>\n\n<p>We are working in partnership with others to ensure that refugees arriving in Staffordshire can resettle in the community and live independently by providing the right help and support when this is needed.</p>\n\n<p>You will be involved:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>in providing support and assistance to refugees, currently primarily from Ukraine and Afghanistan</li>\n\t<li>play a crucial role in helping individuals and families through our five foundations of integration: ESOL, Education & Training, Employment, Accommodation and Sustainability.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>This is a full-time, permanent role, working flexibly, including remote working across Staffordshire.</p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You will be a key worker for families resettling in Staffordshire and will be:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Holding and managing a full caseload.</li>\n\t<li>Working in partnership with and collaboration with other partners and stakeholders.</li>\n\t<li>Completing accurate documentation, reports and records relating to work you do with resettled children and families, and adults.</li>\n\t<li>Supporting resettled children and families, and adults to integrate into their new homes, community and life in Staffordshire.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>You will have:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Fluency in Dari or Pashto would be beneficial</li>\n\t<li>An outgoing, friendly personality who is able to communicate effectively with children and families, ability to build effective trusting relationships and relate positively to the people we support</li>\n\t<li>Passionate about helping others.</li>\n\t<li>An ability to build close networks with voluntary agencies.</li>\n\t<li>An able to adapt and respond positively to change and prioritise tasks and work within time restraints.</li>\n\t<li>An NVQ Level 3 related to working with children and families OR relevant experience working with children, families and/or vulnerable adults would be beneficial.</li>\n\t<li>Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle.</li>\n\t<li>Wants to make a difference</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Applications from male candidates from Afghanistan would be welcomed, to help support cultural and community representation within the Resettlement Service.</p>\n\n<p>An extended induction and training period will be provided.</p>\n\n<p>Unsure if your skills are suitable? For an informal chat please contact</p>\n\n<p>Cate Whitehouse - <a href=\"mailto:cate.whitehouse@staffordshire.gov.uk\">cate.whitehouse@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p>Or</p>\n\n<p>Lindsey Morris - <a href=\"mailto:lindsey.morris@staffordshire.gov.uk\">lindsey.morris@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p>Interviews will be held on 23<sup>rd</sup> January 2025</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£32,654 - £37,035","publishDate":"2024-12-20T11:42:22.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-01-12T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/f9705594-5c71-4d34-a47c-28630e1157cf.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"99ba3af2-510d-4e03-b4aa-759a5b4c800c","title":"Advanced Social Worker - Children's (East Staffordshire)","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"Burton upon Trent","locationType":3,"description":"<p>Life-changing work. Game changing support.</p>\n\n<p>Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.</p>\n\n<p>If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.</p>\n\n<p>We have some exciting new opportunities for experienced social workers  available with us across East Staffordshire</p>\n\n<p>We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.</p>\n\n<p>A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Practice Educator Programme.</li>\n\t<li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li>\n\t<li>We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/\">Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p>Hear more from Michael, on what its like to work here! </p>\n\n<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper\"></div>\n\n<p><strong>Internal applicants:</strong> if you plan to apply for this role on a secondment basis please make sure you have followed the process <a href=\"https://staffordshire.sharepoint.com/sites/HRhub/SitePages/Secondments.aspx#what-should-a-colleague-do-if-they-want-to-apply-for-a-role-on-a-secondment-basis\">here</a> for gaining approval from your current line manager. If you are offered the role and you do not have agreement this will cause significant delays to the process.</p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You will:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>manage a complex allocation of children</li>\n\t<li>share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings, complex Child in Need and Core Group meetings.</li>\n\t<li>promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.</li>\n\t<li>ensure the teamwork towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.</li>\n\t<li>mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers.</li>\n\t<li>be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team</li>\n\t<li>provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.</li>\n\t<li>lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>More generally, overall, you will need to be a:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience</li>\n\t<li>Registered with Social Work England</li>\n\t<li>Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.</p>\n\n<p>Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat  informal chat please contact <a href=\"mailto:fiona.creighton@staffordshire.gov.uk\">c</a><a href=\"mailto:catrin.harries@staffordshire.gov.uk\">atrin.harries@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Interview date:</strong> week commencing 6 January 2025</p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£43,693 - £47,754 plus £963 car user allowance","publishDate":"2024-12-18T16:27:50.000Z","expirationDate":"2024-12-24T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/56572452-cb3a-4414-977a-25e72a5b316b.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"9fb3e14f-a18b-4695-ace3-248821a90cbd","title":"Pensions Governance and Communications Officer","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"Stafford","locationType":3,"description":"<p>We have some exciting opportunities for highly motivated individuals with a real can-do attitude to join our Pensions Governance and Communications Team.</p>\n\n<p>This role offers fantastic opportunities for long term career progression if that is what you are looking for.</p>\n\n<p>We will need you to carry out post duties, maintain records accurately and respond to written and verbal enquiries about the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).</p>\n\n<p>Please note that this is a Permanent, Full time (37 hrs per week) role but will consider part-time/flexible working. You will be required to be in the office 2-3 times a week.</p>\n\n<p>The selection process will be by interview at our offices in Staffordshire Place, Stafford, and will include a short practical test.</p>\n\n<p>If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role or have any questions, please email Martin Elliot, Pensions Governance and Communications Manager at: <a href=\"mailto:martin.elliot@staffordshire.gov.uk\">martin.elliot@staffordshire.gov.uk</a> or Matthew Clewlow,  Senior Pensions Team Leader at: <a href=\"mailto:matthew.clewlow@staffordshire.gov.uk\">matthew.clewlow@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p>To find out more about what we do please click on the link below:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.staffspf.org.uk/Home.aspx\">www.staffspf.org.uk/Home.aspx</a></p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>As a member of the Governance and Communications Team, you will be responsible for: </p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The timely scanning, indexing and tasking of documentation received in to the Pension Fund on to the Pensions Administration System.</li>\n\t<li>Ensuring that queries received in to the pensions mailboxes are dealt with in a timely manner in accordance with set service standards.</li>\n\t<li>Controlling the management, storage, retrieval, retention, and destruction of documents. </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p> </p>\n\n<p> </p>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>Previous experience in an administration role would be an advantage but if you don’t have this full training will be provided.</p>\n\n<p>We just want you to bring a thorough and logical approach to your work and be able to work on your own initiative, prioritise workloads and meet deadlines. A customer focussed outlook is important to us as is a strong attention to accuracy and detail.</p>\n\n<p>Please note that interviews will be held during the week starting 20 January 2025. </p>\n\n<p>Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Martin Elliot, Pensions Governance and Communications Manager at: <a href=\"mailto:martin.elliot@staffordshire.gov.uk\">martin.elliot</a><a href=\"mailto:xxx@staffordshire.gov.uk\">@staffordshire.gov.uk</a> </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£25,183 - £26,409","publishDate":"2024-12-18T16:24:57.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-01-05T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/86908b34-7c1b-4b4a-a5ea-b52990c61b69.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"af6156a3-d596-416b-81c7-f4a8e1b7c1cf","title":"Children's Social Worker (East Staffordshire)","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"East Staffordshire (Uttoxeter)","locationType":3,"description":"<p><strong>We have some exciting new opportunities for social workers  available with us in the Assessment and Staying Together team in Uttoxeter, East Staffordshire</strong></p>\n\n<p>Life-changing work. Game changing support.</p>\n\n<p>Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.</p>\n\n<p>If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.</p>\n\n<p>We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.</p>\n\n<p>A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Practice Educator Programme.</li>\n\t<li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li>\n\t<li>We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/\">Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p>Hear more from Michael, on what its like to work here! </p>\n\n<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper\"></div>\n\n<p> </p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>Working in one of our three Assessment and Staying Together teams covering East Staffordshire you will:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>be working with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need through to the conclusion of Care Proceedings.</li>\n\t<li>Working within a District Model you will work closely with your colleagues in Early Help, Children in Care and Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities Team. In addition, to our colleagues in health and education.</li>\n\t<li>be responsible for completing the statutory duties in co ordinating the child’s plan, reviewing and ensuring that our children are seen and heard.</li>\n\t<li>Undertake section 47 investigations</li>\n\t<li>Undertake placement of children into Local Authority care, when it is agreed they can no longer remain at home</li>\n\t<li>Be responsible for the completion of both Private and Public law reports</li>\n\t<li>Be responsible for referring into our centralised services for specialist support/ services.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>You’ll need:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>A qualified Social Worker</li>\n\t<li>Registered with Social Work England.</li>\n\t<li>To have a current UK driving licence and vehicle</li>\n\t<li>Ideally have completed their ASYE before starting this role</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.</p>\n\n<p>For an informal chat about the role, please contact Layla Pace, Team Manager on 01543 334324 or <a href=\"mailto:layla.pace@staffordshire.gov.uk\">layla.pace@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p>Interviews will be held on week commencing 13th January 2025</p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£37,938 - £42,708 plus £963 car user allowance","publishDate":"2024-12-18T14:19:50.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-01-12T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/cf6092f3-7ae3-4039-9d49-ee06c07f8ba9.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"969bc21b-92cc-4abd-8dd0-005de3f16f23","title":"Advanced Children's Social Worker (East Staffordshire)","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"Uttoxeter","locationType":3,"description":"<p>We have an exciting opportunities in our Assessment and Staying Together Team  within East Staffordshire (based in Uttoxeter). </p>\n\n<p>Life-changing work. Game changing support.</p>\n\n<p>Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.</p>\n\n<p>If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.</p>\n\n<p>We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.</p>\n\n<p>A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Practice Educator Programme.</li>\n\t<li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li>\n\t<li>We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/\">Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper\"></div>\n\n<p> </p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You will:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>manage a complex allocation of children</li>\n\t<li>share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings, complex Child in Need and Core Group meetings.</li>\n\t<li>promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.</li>\n\t<li>ensure the teamwork towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.</li>\n\t<li>mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers.</li>\n\t<li>be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team</li>\n\t<li>provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.</li>\n\t<li>lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>More generally, overall, you will need to be a:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience</li>\n\t<li>Registered with Social Work England</li>\n\t<li>Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.</p>\n\n<p>Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat  informal chat please contact <a href=\"mailto:layla.pace@staffordshire.gov.uk\">layla.pace@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Interview date:</strong> week commencing 13 January 2025</p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£43,693 - £47,754 plus £963 car user allowance","publishDate":"2024-12-18T14:12:31.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-01-05T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/1551c384-9f67-4405-92eb-dac356ffa2be.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"d348ce3c-4cac-48b2-be6b-4cea3134072c","title":"Advanced Social Worker (East Staffordshire)","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"Burton upon Trent","locationType":3,"description":"<p>Life-changing work. Game changing support.</p>\n\n<p>Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.</p>\n\n<p>If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.</p>\n\n<p>We have some exciting new opportunities for experienced social workers  available with us across East Staffordshire</p>\n\n<p>We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience to work in the fast paced duty team. There is a very supportive and friendly culture within the district.</p>\n\n<p>A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Practice Educator Programme.</li>\n\t<li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li>\n\t<li>We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/\">Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p>Hear more from Michael, on what its like to work here! </p>\n\n<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper\"></div>\n\n<p><strong>Internal applicants:</strong> if you plan to apply for this role on a secondment basis please make sure you have followed the process <a href=\"https://staffordshire.sharepoint.com/sites/HRhub/SitePages/Secondments.aspx#what-should-a-colleague-do-if-they-want-to-apply-for-a-role-on-a-secondment-basis\">here</a> for gaining approval from your current line manager. If you are offered the role and you do not have agreement this will cause significant delays to the process.</p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You will:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>manage a complex allocation of children</li>\n\t<li>share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, complex Child in Need meetings..</li>\n\t<li>promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.</li>\n\t<li>ensure the teamwork towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.</li>\n\t<li>mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers.</li>\n\t<li>be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team</li>\n\t<li>provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.</li>\n\t<li>lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>More generally, overall, you will need to be a:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience</li>\n\t<li>Registered with Social Work England</li>\n\t<li>Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.</p>\n\n<p>Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat  informal chat please contact <a href=\"mailto:laura.kirkpatrick@staffordshire.gov.uk\">laura.kirkpatrick@staffordshire.gov.uk</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Interview date:</strong> week commencing 6 January 2025</p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£43,693 - £47,754 plus £963 car user allowance","publishDate":"2024-12-18T13:08:39.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-01-05T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/dbd6acaf-5cbd-4921-95c4-5e4dc5615000.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"1a95ab41-e3c7-42ec-997d-dfe06f8b1617","title":"Family Time Worker (Stafford)","employer":"Staffordshire County Council","department":"","location":"Stafford","locationType":3,"description":"<p><strong>Are you passionate about making a difference to children's lives who are placed in local authority foster care?</strong></p>\n\n<p>As a Family Time Worker, you’ll play a critical role in supporting children in understanding their birth identity and supervising their time with birth parents. </p>\n\n<p>We’re looking for people to join us with the skills to encourage and help maintain positive relationships between children and parents. We work with very vulnerable children so we must ensure we maintain professional relationships whilst managing complex family needs and behaviours.</p>\n\n<p>Our Family Time Workers play a vital role in supporting families for them to spend quality time together. Our aim during family time is to promote a positive and meaningful time for children with their family. This could include offering support, guidance, and parenting advice or modelling positive interaction and behaviours.  We also support children getting to and from school and family time in various locations. Our family time workers are required to transport the children around the county and further afield. </p>\n\n<p>We currently have 3 full-time permanent vacancies, and 1 fixed term contract for 11 months working 37 hours per week over five days.</p>\n\n<p>Contracted hours of work will be:</p>\n\n<p>Monday - Thursday 8.30pm-5.00pm and Friday 830.00pm-4.30pm.</p>\n\n<p>However, flexibility is required as some family times involve working outside of contracted working hours, including evenings and weekends.</p>\n<b>Main Responsibilities</b><br><p>You will be required to:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>facilitate therapeutic family time between children and their parents or other family members.</li>\n\t<li>coordinate arrangements for family time for children and their parents or other family members as directed by court.</li>\n\t<li>transport children and young people to attend family time.</li>\n\t<li>provide parenting support and guidance during family time.</li>\n\t<li>support the completion of accurate documentation, reports, and records in relation to children, young people, and families.</li>\n\t<li>be available outside of traditional working patterns including evenings and weekends to provide support to children, families, and carers when it is needed.</li>\n</ul>\n<b>The Ideal Candidate</b><br><p>As well as a passion for helping and supporting children and their families, you’ll need to have:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>a minimum NVQ 3 in working with children and families or equivalent experience of working with children and families.</li>\n\t<li>experience of direct work with children, their families, and carers in a statutory or voluntary agency which provides services to vulnerable children and their families.</li>\n\t<li>experience in the use of IT including Microsoft packages</li>\n\t<li>an understanding of child development and the effect of stress and trauma on child development.</li>\n\t<li>an understanding of the key pieces of policies, guidance, and legislation which govern children’s social care.</li>\n\t<li>have unrestricted use of a car and a driving licence.</li>\n\t<li>be flexible to work evenings and occasional weekends as needed.</li>\n\t<li>the ability to effectively communicate with children, their families, and carers.</li>\n\t<li>the ability to build relationships and deliver interventions to children, families, and carers.</li>\n\t<li>the ability to work effectively in conflict situations.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Need more information?</strong></p>\n\n<p>If you’re unsure whether your skills and experience meet the needs for the role, please get in touch with us, we’d love to chat to you! You can reach us at <a href=\"mailto:natasha.williams@staffordshire.gov.uk\">natasha.williams</a><a href=\"mailto:rachel.harvey@staffordshire.gov.uk\">@staffordshire.gov.uk</a> or on 01785 276800</p>\n\n<p>Interviews will be held: 16th January  2025 </p>\n\n<p>“We’re happy to talk flexible working” </p>\n\n<p><strong>This role is currently subject to a review of weekend working arrangements, including any paid enhancements.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Recruitment Process:</strong> We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully with evidence of essential qualifications, alongside the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.</p>\n<b>About Staffordshire County Council</b><br><p><strong>We are no ordinary county council:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Our Values:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.</p>\n\n<p>Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:</p>\n\n<p class=\"image-center\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"https://staffscc-uploads-eu-west-2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/63806fb8a56160f4aa0fa5dc8ac1debabf27234b.jpg\" width=\"700\"></p>\n\n<p>We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.</p>\n\n<p>We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Our benefits:</strong></p>\n\n<p>We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to <a href=\"https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/\">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a></p>\n\n<p><b>Our recruitment process:</b></p>\n\n<p>As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.</p>\n\n<p>Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities</p>\n\n<p>As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. </p>\n\n<p>As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. 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Family Practitioner (East Staffs & Tamworth)

Staffordshire County Council

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£29,093 - £32,654 (pro rata) plus £963 essential car user allowance

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