Children with Disabilities Team – Sheffield

Social workers are incredible people – committed to a highly challenging career that helps protect and empower the most vulnerable amongst us.

In Sheffield, our ambition is simple but powerful: to ensure children and young people are safe, supported, and able to reach their full potential. To achieve this, we are looking for exceptional Advanced Social Work Practitioners to join our Children with Disabilities Team.

About the Role

As an Advanced Social Work Practitioner, you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest professional standards, conduct, and quality of social work practice. You will work autonomously with complex cases while also supporting and mentoring less experienced social workers, helping them to analyse and think through challenging situations to promote best practice and positive outcomes for children and young people.

You will:

• Undertake complex casework and decision‑making
• Complete risk assessments and safeguarding investigations
• Present evidence confidently in court
• Work effectively within a multi‑agency environment
• Provide professional guidance, mentoring, and reflective support to colleagues

About You

You will be:

• A qualified and experienced social work practitioner
• Able to work autonomously on complex cases
• Highly skilled in risk assessment, court work, and safeguarding
• Experienced in multi‑agency working
• Passionate about supporting children and young people with disabilities

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Sheffield?

We know this is a demanding role – so we work hard to make it a supportive, rewarding, and sustainable career choice.

• A genuinely supportive team
  You’ll be part of a compassionate team, led by a nurturing manager and supported by colleagues who truly understand the challenges of the work.
• Empowered to do your best work
  Our excellent managers provide high‑quality reflective supervision, giving you the space, guidance, and confidence to deliver great practice.
• Your development matters
  We offer a tailored learning and development package, mentoring opportunities, and clear pathways for career progression.
• Flexible working that works for you
  Generous flexible working arrangements help you balance work with your home life and personal wellbeing.
• Innovative practice, better outcomes
  Join a service that actively seeks out innovative and effective ways of working – making your job easier and improving outcomes for children and young people.
• A great city to live and work in
  Sheffield is a vibrant, diverse city with excellent schools, strong transport links, rich cultural and social opportunities, and outstanding access to green spaces and the outdoors.

If you’re looking for a role where your expertise is valued, your wellbeing is supported, and your work truly makes a difference, Sheffield is the place for you.

Further information: Sue.Eggleshaw@sheffield.gov.uk 

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our New job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council | Sheffield City Council