Newly Qualified Social Worker Newbury, England
Job description
West Berkshire Council is seeking to recruit Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) who wish to go into front line social work and join our Newly Qualified Social Work Programme and complete their Assessed and Supported Year of Employment (ASYE)
Join West Berkshire’s Children and Family Services and start your social worker career with a ‘GOOD’ authority. We will develop your skills and competencies in a supportive and creative environment and give you the chance to be a NQSW with time to reflect on your practice and learn from it. You will have opportunities for classroom, e-learning and action learning as well as shadowing and peer-to-peer support. You will join our established ASYE programme, have a dedicated practice educator, reduced caseload, protected time for professional development and enhanced supervision and training. You will be supported by an experienced manager, a practice educator and have the opportunity to attend a module delivered by Bucks New University with other NQSWs from across Berkshire. This support will give you the best start to your social work career.
You will take up a post in one of our frontline social work teams, including Contact Advice and Assessment Service (CAAS), Family Safeguarding Teams (FS East and West), Children with Disabilities Team, Children in Care Team (CIC) and Leaving Care Team. All teams are based in Newbury Town Centre except the F.S. East Team which is based at our office in Calcot, Reading. Free car parking is provided.
We want our social workers to feel valued, secure and supported so that they in turn offer the best possible service to children and families in West Berkshire. To help us achieve this, we've put together a generous and wide-ranging benefits package for our social workers in Children & Family Services
We are ideally looking to offer the successful candidate the full number of hours advertised above. We may however consider offering less hours than advertised providing they meet the requirements of the role and service which will be determined by the recruiting manager.
Visit www.westberks.gov.uk/socialwork for more information about our benefits and support package, but also to find out from our social workers and managers why West Berkshire is a great place to live and work.
If you would like to find out more please call Nichola Fox Workforce Development Officer on 01635 519785.
Interviews are scheduled to take place on the 27th and 30th March 2023.
Equal Opportunities
The Council supports Equal Opportunity of employment, and positively encourages applications from people who fall within any of the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
Please complete an online application form.
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This role requires the incumbent to have a car available at work to undertake his/her duties as they will be expected to undertake at least 1500 business miles per year. Essential Car User status attracts a lump sum allowance paid on a monthly basis as well as a free car parking space if he/she works at one of the Council’s corporate buildings.
This role has been identified as public facing in accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2017; the requirement to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English applies.
West Berkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share these values. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. Successful candidates will be offered employment subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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