Social Worker – Children’s Advice & Duty Team (CADS/MASH)

Terms & Conditions: Permanent, 37 hours per week

Department: Children’s Services & Education

Shortlisting date: 23rd May 2023

Interview date: 30th May 2023

Are you looking for a new Children’s Social Work opportunity? Your journey with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council starts here.

Working here at Blackburn with Darwen, you really can make a difference to the lives of our families, children and young people that we are incredibly proud of.

Our new TRACK values and aims are forming our new culture and recruitment drive in Children’s Services, so now is an excellent time to join one of our social care teams. Follow the link below to read about the values that underpin our services.

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Our aim is to ‘Listen, Learn, Act’ as our employees are at the heart of our organisation. At recent briefings, employees fed back to us that they felt listened to around ideas, culture, transformation and new ways of working and that is exactly why we have reshaped how our teams deliver services. We know we cannot deliver our services and achieve fantastic results without our employees feeling happy, motivated and supported in their roles. As we like to say “Big enough to cope, small enough to care”.

As a Social Worker on this team, you will be the first point of contact for referrals into Children’s Services. As an experienced Social Worker, you will provide advice and guidance to parents, carers and other professionals identifying whether intervention is required from statutory social work services. Social work recommendations will be made promptly to ensure that the children of Blackburn with Darwen receive the right help at the right time.

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council supports flexible and agile working as part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Social work teams.

Considerations:

• Flexibility of working hours
• Flexible work patterns
• Job share
• Change to working hours

Our offer to you:

• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to purchase additional leave. Annual leave will increase to 26 days in April 2023
• Administrative support is provided by our business support team to assist practitioners in their role
• Practice Development Team with clear progression route from being a student and an apprentices through to senior leadership
• Bespoke mentoring support to all newly qualified social workers completing ASYE and capped caseloads
• Recognition and rewards to celebrate our successes
• A defined career pathway as part of our workforce strategy
• Professional fees paid
• A range of Wellbeing support for you and your family
• Great centralised office location – within walking distance from train and bus station
• Employee discount schemes
• Local Government Pension

We recognise that diversity is a strength and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council recognises continuous service or ‘unbroken’ service from any local authority, NHS organisation or organisation covered by the modification order.

In addition to your CV, please include supporting information which evidences how you meet the criteria detailed on the key requirements document.