Children's Senior Social Worker - Community Assessment (6990)

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Job Description

Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | £41,173 to £45,442 per annum (Grade K) | Great Yarmouth

Senior Social Worker

This is not a traditional statutory Social Work role. As a Senior Social Worker for our Community Assessment Team, you'll undertake bespoke 8-week assessments, working in parallel with the child's allocated Social Worker. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering community-based assessments with intensive support.

Along with your team of Family Support Workers, you will utilise specialist skills to work with children and families to deliver positive change.

You'll make recommendations for future planning to the Court and to inform child protection planning. Leading in complex situations, you'll provide professional support to staff and lead practice development within the team.

The bespoke nature of the assessments offers the right candidate an opportunity to focus on implementing real change through relationship-based practice, collaborative working and a clear focus on the child. This role offers opportunities for the right candidate to focus on the quality of each assessment and intervention and will provide experience of leading practice within a team.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our work spaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working (splitting your working time between one or more workplaces and agreed remote working locations like your home) a key feature for many roles.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specificationto help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 01 October 2024

Closing date: 09 October 2024

About Us

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.