Grade: L scp 43 £52,805 to scp 47 £57,175 + essential car user allowance
Contract: Permanent
Essential Qualification: Social Worker
Essential Requirement: Full driving licence + SWE Registration
Hours: 37 per week
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The Role
Salary up to £57,175 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963 per annum
Bolton Council is seeking to appoint a Principal Social Worker for Children’s Services. As PSW you will have lead responsibility for driving forward continual improvement and evaluating the effectiveness of our arrangements to safeguard children and adults. You will provide challenge and support to practitioners, managers and elected members to ensure optimum conditions for high quality practice and service delivery. You will manage and contribute to practice learning arrangements for the children’s workforce, ensuring learning opportunities are maximised. You will manage and oversee practice development and have a key role in developing and implementing the quality assurance framework. You will provide advice and guidance to other professionals and promote the value of the social work role within integrated teams.
In our recent Ofsted inspection for Childrens Services in September 2023, Ofsted agreed that Bolton deliver good services to children and families. You will contribute to building on this achievement and success.
About You
We are looking to recruit to the Bolton Family an outstanding individual who is committed to providing a first class service to children, young people and their families. Candidates must have excellent frontline practice skills; a minimum of five years post qualification practice in a social work team with three of these years being in a management position. The successful person will have the ability to analyse complex information and use this to support improvement in practice; be a positive communicator who can collaborate, influence and challenge with excellent verbal and written skills. Additionally, they will have the ability to shape and deliver workforce development. We are looking for someone who is deeply committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and will go the extra mile to make this happen.
You will have substantial knowledge of the legislation and statutory responsibilities that underpin Children's Social Care, including appropriate performance indicators and quality standards.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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