Specialist Practitioner - Emergency Duty Team
Vacancy Details
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £43,516- £46,549 + 20% enhancement |
| Location: | Steel House |
| Job Type: | Full Time, Permanent |
| Category: | City Council (External Vacancy) |
| Closing Date: | 26/04/2023 |
| Reference: | 0000017713 |
Description
Directorate: Children and Family Services
Section: Children’s Social Care – Emergency Duty Team
Grade: Level 13
Hours: 37 hours per week (see below for further details)
This advert is open to both internal and external applicants.
We have a number of posts available.
It is an exciting time for Stoke-on-Trent’s emergency duty team (EDT) which is progressing through transition to a children’s only EDT.
The new team will provide quality services to children and families outside of normal working hours as well as building and maintaining collaborative working with our partner agencies and colleagues across the directorate.
The team is a vital part of Stoke on Trent children’s services, where we provide support to the most vulnerable cohort of children and families and as such, we need practitioners who can work restoratively and work with families to help them to find their own solutions and provide safeguarding responses where required.
This is a unique opportunity for a practitioner with substantial post qualifying experience to join a new team and be a fundamental part of shaping our EDT and its future. We require practitioners who are enthusiastic, passionate, innovative and embrace change to join us on our change journey. Our vision is to make sure that we provide the right services to children and families at the right time, and we can achieve this by continuously striving for improvement and welcoming a learning and development culture, which you will be integral in achieving.
The Children’s advice & duty service (ChAD) responds to concerns through conversations, which is an evidence-based approach we would want to develop further within EDT and adopt all of the positive learning we have gained from this journey and continue to develop on areas of improvement.
This is a real opportunity for you to develop in your role as a social worker and progress further with mentoring and coaching skills, whereby you will support our sessional workers and their own development and be involved in developing and implementing new processes.
We need experienced and resilient social workers to join the team, who can both work collaboratively with other services and take personal responsibility for their work and operate on their own initiative, who actively relishes taking on new challenges and broadening your skills.
To be considered for a position you must have a degree in Social Work or equivalent, be registered with Social Work England and be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post.
We really look forward to receiving your application, please join our informal Q&A webinars on one the below dates to meet members of the team and get more information on the role
Thursday 26th January 2023 1.30pm – 2.30pm
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Tuesday 31st January 2023 5.15pm – 6.15pm
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Alternatively if you would like to discuss this role in more detail, please contact Nina Prigmore on 01782 238069 or nina.prigmore@stoke.gov.uk
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Additional Information
Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.
Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority. If this happens you will be advised accordingly.
To Apply
Please create / log into your account and then click 'apply'. If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.
In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions:
- Do you have the Right to Work in the UK?