Social Worker United Kingdom
Job description
Employer: Children, Young People, Education and Skills
Job number: SOJ07716
Closing date: 13-Apr-2023
Post requires 5 years residency: No
Post requires Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) clearance: Yes - Enhanced
Contract type: Permanent
Full time or part time: Full Time
Term time only: No
Working hours: 37 Hours per Week
Shift details: N/A
Salary: 55293 - 60931 GBP per year
Job summary
- Investing in our workforce
- Training and development
- Increasing the number and range of homes for our children
- Increasing investment in community and intensive support to children and families to support them to stay together.
- Introducing new legislation to promote and support the wellbeing of children
- Creating time for direct work
- Improving options for care leavers
- Keeping caseloads low
We’re a diverse and well-resourced organisation with a strong partnership ethos. We have the time to deliver interventions and as a small Island, we stay close as a team. We care. We’re establishing a highly skilled, rewarded workforce and want you to join us.
If you want to be part of the journey in Jersey to put children and young people first and you would like to live and work in an Island community, you could be one of our new Social Workers.
We’re currently recruiting to all teams across the service; Assessment & Support, Family Safeguarding Services, Children in Care Team, Complex Needs Team and Fostering & Adoption.
We’re looking for high-quality Social Workers who love working in strengths-based ways that promote the rights of each child. You’ll need great wells of compassion, endless versatility and deep understanding of safeguarding, meeting need, legislation and beyond.
We are investing. We are growing. We are ambitious.
For more information, or to ask any questions, please contact [email protected]
As an inclusive employer we will create opportunities for flexible working to attract and retain talent which reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications for working flexible hours, part-time working and job sharing.
