Calderdale is a beautiful metropolitan borough in the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines, situated between Manchester and Leeds. The spectacular natural landscape, vibrant towns, quirky culture, and tremendous architecture make it a great place to live and work. It’s ideal location allows for easy access via the motorway or rail into the town centre or the surrounding area. Calderdale is a place where you can make a difference.
Calderdale Council’s Children’s Services have recently been judged by Ofsted as ‘Good’ overall with outstanding features for all our services to children in care and care leavers. We have fantastic opportunities in Children’s Social Care and are looking for passionate and committed people who can make a meaningful difference to our children and contribute to our continuing improvement journey.
The benefits of working for Calderdale Children’s Social Care is that you will be supported to provide the very best service for our children. Quality reflective supervision is provided and there is very much a learning culture within the service. We have a commitment to maintaining caseloads at an appropriate level, which ensures practitioners, are given opportunities to work effectively and robustly. We value our social work staff and in recognition we offer a free car parking permit and after the first year a retention payment. You will be given a comprehensive induction program and provided with regular person focused supervision to meet your well-being, training and development needs.
Calderdale Council considers children who are at risk of or are being exploited as the most vulnerable children and an established Child Exploitation multi-agency team is in place to prevent children and young people from being groomed and exploited. The team is primarily at the moment based at Princess Buildings, Halifax and work virtually alongside partner agencies. Alongside the two social workers in the Child Exploitation team from Social Care there are also two Project Workers who support the work being undertaken with children and their families.
We are seeking an experience social worker to ensure that children, who are at risk or affected by exploitation receive the appropriate support to meet their needs. The role includes undertaking child exploitation risk assessments, child and family single assessments, section 47 enquiries and covers all aspects of planning. You will also attend and contribute to various multi-agency meeting which includes the Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Meeting (MACE), Matrix Meeting (which tracks children who have been identified as at risk of exploitation) and the Harmful Sexual Behaviour Panel
Applications will be considered from qualified social worker (BA/DipSW/CQSW or equivalent), registered with Social Work England and can demonstrate qualifying experience gained within statutory children and family services.
We will offer:
Supportive management and a service-wide commitment to continuous improvement.
A creative and challenging team with supportive colleagues.
Opportunities to develop your supervision and management skills in a supportive environment.
Supervision and appraisal arrangements to build your skills and to assist you in your career development.
An excellent learning and development programme that reflects your needs and the skills that you will need to develop.
To arrange a discussion about the role, please contact waqar.mustafa@calderdale.gov.uk (Team Manager).
Closing Date: Tuesday, 22nd November 2022
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants to posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act will require a DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.
Calderdale are following social distancing precautions and may utilise digital interview methods.
As part of our Vision 2024 https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/ we aim to be a talented, resilient and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working / job share opportunities for both full and part time staff.
All applications are anonymised before being seen by the selection panel.
We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the advertised closing date, an early submission is advised.