Children's Senior Social Worker

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Children's Senior Social Workers Sheffield Safeguarding Hub/MASH

Are you looking for new challenge in your social work career? Do you want to work as part of a dynamic & supportive multi-agency environment that puts children & young people at the heart of everything we do?

If so, this is an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic and experienced Social Worker to join our team in playing an integral role in promoting the safety and wellbeing of children and their families across Sheffield. We are proud of our workforce and the quality of interventions they deliver, which was recognised during our last Ofsted inspection as a GOOD Local Authority.

The multi-agency Safeguarding Hub is the first point of contact for children, young people and families in need or in need of safeguarding within the City of Sheffield, and together with a range of statutory and non-statutory resources, we work together to provide the highest level of knowledge and analysis, ensuring that activity and intervention is timely, proportionate and necessary.

In this role, you will be a member of a team delivering high quality and effective services to children, young people, and their families/carers, applying your knowledge of and complying with relevant legislation and regulation, maintaining the highest professional standards and ensure the consistent application of the threshold to step up from early help to children&©s social care to ensure better outcomes for children and their families.

Applications for this exciting role are welcomed from qualified and registered experienced social workers with significant experience in statutory services who have strong communication, engagement and analytical skills to allow them to safeguard children & young people and engage effectively with a wide range of agencies.

We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable children and young people are effectively supported to reach their full potential, delivered through our effective early help and prevention services, and strong partnerships that ensure safeguarding remains the highest priority for children and young people in Sheffield. To help deliver our vision, we need experienced, self-motivated, innovative and creative social work professionals. Experience and skills in robust multi-agency partnership working across Children's Services is essential to be able to promote co-operation, working together with other organisations and service users as the means of shaping, developing and delivering services.

The successful candidate will have access to:

• A comprehensive induction programme
• Excellent learning and continued professional development opportunities.
• A clear progression pathway.
• Tools and models to support practice, including Signs of Safety and Safe and Together
• Reflective supervision
• Working in an enjoyable and supportive environment
• Retention of continuous service benefits, for those moving from a local government post.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Sarah Halford, Senior Fieldwork Manager, direct at Sarah.Halford@sheffield.gov.uk . Callbacks can be arranged if you&©d prefer a conversation about the role.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.