Advanced Practitioner- Maternity Cover

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid

Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) and plus market premia

Working Hours: 37 hours per week Mon - Fri

Contract Type: Temporary Maternity Cover - approx. 9 - 12 months

Closing Date: 16th April 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

About the Role

This is a maternity cover opportunity for the role of an Advanced Practitioner for our Locality Teams in Hinckley and South Wigston for approximately 9 - 12 months. You will need to be a Children's Social Worker and be registered with Social Work England. In this role, you will be developing and delivering a coherent model of support and challenge in relation to social work practice development through training, group work, and 1-1 support. Working as part of a small team, you will help to further embed our departmental practice framework Signs of Safety and ambition to be a trauma-informed children and family department.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be a Children's Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Have a high level of experience working with children and families within children's social care, with substantial breadth of practice and depth of experience across a range of areas.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skilled application of Signs of Safety and be able to describe the practical application of the tools and disciplines to affect lasting change.
• Have knowledge of trauma-informed practice and its implications for working with children, families, and our workforce.
• Provide evidence of coaching/mentoring and supporting workers to develop their practice and confidence, as well as experience of training others.
• Have experience of challenging inadequate practice to support improvement.
• Possess extensive knowledge of key areas of practice including whole family working in safeguarding children and managing risk.
• Stay up to date with National Changes and how this will affect Social Work Practice going forward.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit individual circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss possible flexible working options applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Mandy Goodenough - Principal Social Worker

Telephone: 01163059849

Email: Mandy.Goodenough@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support

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