Senior Social Workers – Local Social Welfare
Children’s services
Wigan Life Center South
College Avenue
Wigan
WN1 1NJ
Leigh City Hall
Market street
Leigh
WN7 1DY
Salary: Grade 10, £ 37,890- £ 41,881 per year.
37 hours per week
Your role:
In childcare we want to support all children in Wigan to be happy, healthy and safe; to feel heard and to have the maximum opportunity to be ambitious. We know that social workers are one of the most demanding yet rewarding jobs. We value our social workers; the fantastic work they do and the resilience they show by overcoming challenges every day. Our senior social workers on our Local Service will be responsible for managing risk and care planning for our children, who are subject to Children in Need, Child Protection and Public Service Plans, and ensuring that our children are safe and their aspirations. This role will work closely with children and families, social workers and partners across the district.
This role is a great opportunity to support our most vulnerable children and families. You are an experienced social worker and enjoy the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, creative and supportive environment. You will willingly share your knowledge and skills to contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement by mentoring, coaching and supporting others to achieve a common goal of improving outcomes for children and their families. You will ensure that the practice is underpinned by the principles of the deal and our standards of practice, and that the Signs of Safety model is embedded in our work with children and families by advocating for this model.
About you:
You will be an experienced, innovative, confident and energetic practitioner who is committed to achieving positive change for children and families and supporting your colleagues in consistently learning, developing and delivering good social work practice. They are trained social workers with many years of experience in social work in the field of social work with children and families, based on a strengths-based practice model and demonstrably successful.
You are motivated, courageous, flexible and ready to work across all services as required and you are an expert in your field with the ability to advise, support, supervise and coach others responsible for your own case load. You set a good example to embrace change and support your team in a positive way. They will also support our services to maximize and improve the use of technology to enable improved practice.
They have a keen interest in learning from and disseminating case reviews, audits and complaints, and helping employees close the loop after audit activities to support continuous improvement. You have excellent analytical and judgmental skills to analyze complex information or situations, assess and interpret risks, and solve difficult problems or develop solutions and plans. You can think quickly and creatively in order to master complex challenges and problems. Your highly developed interpersonal and caring skills will help you meet the needs of children, adolescents and their families, and you will be able to motivate and empower children and families to find and achieve their own solutions by They are friendly and help them with their long term sustainable family plans.
About us:
The Wigan Council was named “Council of the Year” at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards and recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our district. We have joined the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment to ensure that your service is continuous or “uninterrupted” between supporting organizations.
Here in Wigan we listen to what our employees tell us and when they told us they wanted to get ahead without moving to a managerial position, we introduced the role of senior social worker. This is not an advanced position, so there are no supervision requirements; This post recognizes the expertise of seasoned social workers who handle a wide variety of cases, share their skills and knowledge with their less experienced colleagues, and work with the Advanced Practitioner to support and develop the team.
As an employer, we would like to thank our employees for their hard work and dedication by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits.
Covid-safe:
Wigan Council prides itself on being a Covid Safe organization. Some of these tasks require you to work from home and virtually connect with your team and others. However, there may be times when you need to go to a church building to perform some of your role. The health and well-being of our employees is very important to us, and if you need to use a community building, a prior risk assessment will be carried out and appropriate safety measures in place.
For more information, please contact Kate Press at kate.press@wigan.gov.uk
To view the details of this position, please click on the links below:
Job Description
DBS applicant information
Data protection
Interview date: week from February 14, 2022
Interviews take place remotely
Learn more about working at Wigan
This role is subject to extended disclosure procedures plus a child blacklist check
The employer is obliged to protect
