Senior Social Worker

Are you looking for a rewarding career in social care?

The Adult Social Care Transitions Team (14-25) provides social care assessment, case management and safeguarding support across Staffordshire working alongside young people living in Staffordshire living with disabilities and additional needs including neurodiversity and poor mental health. The team includes workers linking in with SEND and educations provisions to support transitions, Social Workers and Social Care Practitioners with a focus on supporting young people, their families and the people that are important to them as well professionals that are supporting them. this includes Children’s Social Workers, SEND workers, education and health professionals.

The focus of the team is to support young people to experience a successful transition into adult social care helping to prevent the cliff edge for those young people.

This team is a great team who are determined to ensure the best transition for those they support. The Senior Social Worker role is imperative in supporting the work force, in ensuring their practice is strength based.

This role is based within Staffordshire place 1 (Stafford town centre), and it is important to ensure you are in the office at least twice a week. The rest of the time home working can be accessed as needed.

In this role you'll:

• Provide advice and guidance to practitioners, to ensure the best service delivered to those they are working with
• Carry out quality assure assessments and provide strength based feedback
• Directly provide professional supervision to around 8 staff members.
• Support on a rota for duty manager to support the duty function that sits within the team.
• Hold a small and complex caseload, this can be a keyworker or joint work with practitioners on the team.
• Support and work through court work as needed.
• Provide quality circles to ensure practice within the team is continuing the best practice.
• Chair complex MDT's or best interests meetings.
• Understand the importance of ensuring we maintain our Key performance Indicators

You will:

• Be an experienced social worker who has managed complex work
• Demonstrate post qualification learning
• Have a understanding and experience of Deprivation of liberty safeguards
• Have relevant training and experience around safeguarding
• Have experience of working with transitions and support those moving from childhood to adulthood
• Be experienced in supporting and providing supervision to practitioners

Interviews will be held during the week starting 21 July 2025, these interviews will be in person.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Tom Scott, Team Manager, tom.scott3@staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.