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We have an exciting new opportunity for a social worker in our Assessment and Staying Together team based in Tamworth.&nbsp;
Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.
If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.
We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of&nbsp;working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.
A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:
<ul>
<li>Practice Educator Programme.</li>
<li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li>
</ul>
We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.
For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit <a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/" target="_blank">Children &amp; Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a>
Main Responsibilities
You will:
<ul>
<li>be working with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need through to the conclusion of Care Proceedings.</li>
<li>Working within a District Model you will work closely with your colleagues in Early Help, Children in Care and Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities Team. In addition, to&nbsp;our colleagues in health and education.</li>
<li>be responsible for completing the&nbsp;statutory duties in co ordinating the child’s plan, reviewing and ensuring that our children are seen and heard.</li>
<li>Undertake section 47 investigations</li>
<li>Undertake placement of children into Local Authority care, when it is agreed they can no longer remain at home</li>
<li>Be responsible for the completion of both Private and Public law reports</li>
<li>Be responsible for referring into our centralised services for specialist support/ services.</li>
</ul>
The Ideal Candidate
You’ll need:
<ul>
<li>A qualified Social Worker</li>
<li>Registered with Social Work England.</li>
<li>Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle</li>
<li>Ideally have completed their ASYE before starting this role</li>
</ul>
But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.
For an informal chat about the roles, please contact: Heather Kliner on email at: <a href="mailto:heather.kliner1@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">heather.kliner1@staffordshire.gov.uk</a>
Interviews will be held on week commencing 8th December 2025
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.
About Staffordshire County Council
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.&nbsp;
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.&nbsp;
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/" target="_blank">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a>
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&nbsp;Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your&nbsp;application meets the minimum criteria for the post.&nbsp;
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.

Children's Social Worker

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Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of&nbsp;working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:<ul><li>Practice Educator Programme.</li><li>Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.</li><li>We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.</li></ul>To see more on this visit : <a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/" target="_blank">Children &amp; Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a>You will be based in Tamworth.Main Responsibilities You’ll be:<ul><li>&nbsp;key in the support and coaching our Social Workers.&nbsp;</li><li>encourage and ensure that there’s a focus upon quality of practice but also on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.</li><li>Manage a complex allocation of children</li><li>Share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings, complex Child in Need and Core Group meetings.</li><li>Coordinate and facilitate team group supervision</li><li>Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.</li><li>Ensure the team work towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.</li><li>Mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers</li><li>Be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team</li><li>Provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.</li><li>Lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager</li></ul>The Ideal Candidate You'll need to:<ul><li>be a Qualified Social Worker with&nbsp;post qualifying experience</li><li>a registered with Social Work England</li><li>Have a current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle&nbsp;</li></ul>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact Heather Kliner, Team Manager on email<a href="mailto:heather.kliner1@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">&nbsp;heather.kliner1@staffordshire.gov.uk</a><a href="mailto:layla.pace@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank"></a>Interviews will be held week commencing 8th December 2025.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.About Staffordshire County Council 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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/" target="_blank">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a>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 communitiesAs part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold&nbsp;Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your&nbsp;application meets the minimum criteria for the post.&nbsp;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.

Advanced Children's Social Worker

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Make a real difference where it matters most.
Are you a passionate and experienced Social Worker ready to take the next step in your career?&nbsp;
Join our dedicated Assessment and Staying Together Teams on a &nbsp;in Tamworth where your work will directly impact the lives of vulnerable children and families. &nbsp;
This role offers a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the local community while benefiting from a supportive and adaptable working environment.
While flexible working arrangements are supported, you will be expected to work from the office or within the district an average of 3 days per week.
If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.
To see more about working at Staffordshire visit : <a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/children-families/" target="_blank">Children &amp; Families - Careers at Staffordshire</a>
Main Responsibilities
You will:
<ul>
<li>Lead on the delivery of the statutory responsibilities of the Authority relating to children’s safeguarding (in the broadest sense) under the Children and Families Act 2017 and it’s contextual framework through Working Together 2015 and other relevant legislation e.g. Education Act 1996, Children Act 1989, Adoption &amp; Children Act 2006 etc</li>
<li>Provide the highest level of professional leadership, motivation and direction to a team of qualified social workers, family practitioners.</li>
<li>Lead a team of practitioners and manage the day to day practice and the safe allocation of work and to ensure these are progressed in accordance with the statutory frameworks.</li>
<li>Ensure that effective professional practice and supervision is delivered throughout the team following the principles of the knowledge and skills statements for social workers and in adherence with Children and Social Work Act 2017</li>
<li>Identify and embed service improvements through audits, quality assurance, identifying training, benchmarking and the interpretation and dissemination of legislation</li>
</ul>
The Ideal Candidate
You will have:
<ul>
<li>a professional social work qualification</li>
<li>an additional professional qualification in a related area or evidence which can demonstrate skills, knowledge and ability e.g. Practice Educator</li>
<li>experience of working at a senior level within a local authority</li>
<li>knowledge of managing social workers and others within a single or multi-professional team</li>
<li>experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in a partnership environment.</li>
</ul>
“We’re happy to talk flexible working”&nbsp;
Interviews will be held during the week starting 22nd December 2025.&nbsp;
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 &nbsp;Olu Kolawole, District Lead at: <a href="mailto:oluwemimo.kolawole@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">oluwemimo.kolawole</a><a href="mailto:xxx@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">@staffordshire.gov.uk</a> or Fiona Creighton , Deputy District Lead at<a href="mailto:fiona.creighton@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">&nbsp;fiona.creighton@staffordshire.gov.uk</a>
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.
About Staffordshire County Council
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.&nbsp;
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.&nbsp;
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/" target="_blank">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a>
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&nbsp;Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your&nbsp;application meets the minimum criteria for the post.&nbsp;
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.

Children's Social Work Team Manager

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We have 4 Children’s Disability teams across the county, and they provide specialist services for children and young people with complex disabilities.These are small teams of highly dedicated Social Workers that support children and families to reach the best outcomes in a timely manner, enabling them to live their lives to the full. We also are supported by a team of skilled Family Practitioners who assist in facilitating behaviour management work and undertaking direct work.Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our County. They take pride in supporting children and families and we’re equally proud to help them give their best in whatever ways we can. That’s why you can expect everything from agile and flexible working options to exceptional learning and development if you join our team. You can also expect our commitment to creating the best service we can.Working with us means collaborating across our different teams, and sharing best practice, knowledge, and experience to continually improve the way we do things. Support is important, as we work in a big county with some diverse challenges – but together we can meet all kinds of needs and demands.Main Responsibilities You will be:<ul>
<li>based within a small team of between seven and eight&nbsp;social workers.</li>
<li>holding and managing a workload of children and young people and prioritising all work</li>
<li>undertaking&nbsp;direct work with children and their families and their carers which provides high support and high challenge and aims to support families to find solutions to their own challenges.</li>
<li>providing high quality and timely assessments and reports in the agreed format for Court’s, Child Protection Case Conferences, Statutory Reviews and any other forum</li>
<li>maintaining client records&nbsp;</li>
</ul>The Ideal Candidate You will:<ul>
<li>be a Qualified Social Worker with post qualification experience working directly with children and families and be committed to supporting children to remain with their families.</li>
<li>be registered with Social Work England.</li>
<li>have excellent communication skills and &nbsp;the ability to build relationships with children, families and other professionals.</li>
<li>be a team player.</li>
<li>have the ability to engage and communicate with disabled children and be committed to ensuring the children on your case load receive the best quality service.</li>
</ul>But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.For more information about these vacancies, please contact Natasha Davies, Team Manager, on <a href="mailto:natasha.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">natasha.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk</a>, or 01785 895787Interviews are expected to take place on 4th December.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.About Staffordshire County Council 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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.careersatstaffordshire.co.uk/our-rewards-and-benefits/" target="_blank">Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire</a>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 communitiesAs part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold&nbsp;Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your&nbsp;application meets the minimum criteria for the post.&nbsp;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.

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