Social Work Apprentice (degree apprenticeship) Sandbach, England
Job description
Working towards a Social Work Degree within the Children and Families Team, within Cheshire East (location to be determined).
Upon completion of the degree, the successful candidate would progress to a Grade 8 Social Worker post.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Brighter Future
Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)
We are looking for an individual who is committed to supporting children, young people and their families through a range of interventions designed to improve family/individual functioning.
For external candidates, we require extensive experience of working with children. For internal candidates, a minimum of one year's frontline experience is required.
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
