Social Worker - Court Team

at  City of Wolverhampton Council

BE THE SOCIAL WORKER YOU WANT TO BE…

Develop your career in social work, specifically within the area of court work, private and public law by applying for a post within the above team where you will have a protected caseload.
We are looking for ambitious and confident individuals to contribute to this service area, to continue the work we have started, maintaining our positive reputation within the court arena, producing good quality and timely reports and assessments and ensuring care planning for the Authority’s most vulnerable children is achieved to a high standard.
In Wolverhampton we are ambitious for our social workers, passionate about excellent, relational social work practice and courageous in our innovation, with leaders who are visible and responsive.
We need people like you who want to make a real difference in the lives of children and families and will support us to deliver excellent services to the most vulnerable children in our City.
If you are someone who is passionate and tenacious, wants to do the best job possible and is committed to excellent social work practice and achieving the very best for our Children, Young People and Families then we want to hear from you!
At the award-winning City of Wolverhampton Council, we work restoratively with children and families, building strong relationships and connections to help them find long-lasting solutions.

Our vision for the Children and Young People Services is:

• To develop respectful and empowering relationships with children, young people and families
• To ensure children are at the centre of everything we do
• High aspirations, high expectations

We are a forward-thinking, responsive and innovative organisation and want our social workers to spend their time building relationships with families to achieve real, sustainable change. We focus on teams having manageable workloads and we have a clear development pathway alongside a substantial training and development offer which is varied and responsive to practice challenges. Our senior managers and leaders are visible and take the time to listen to frontline employees. We are proud to say we are Ofsted rated Good with Outstanding features and have fully embedded a Restorative Practice approach.
We are looking for people like you, who are committed to developing the highest levels of innovative and creative practice with children and families to help them achieve good outcomes. As advocates of a strength-based approach to social work, we will also look after you, investing in your training in Restorative Practice and court related training, giving you the best possible range of methods and strategies to prevent and resolve situations that you might encounter.
This opportunity will allow for you to safely experience the work we do within the Family Court arena, developing your skill base and understanding of court processes, Private Law, Public Law Outline including pre-proceedings work and pre-birth assessments.
We will inspire, support and champion you so that you can be the social worker you want to be.

PLEASE NOTE A SEPARATE ADVERT WILL BE PLACED FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED SOCIAL WORKERS AS AND WHEN VACANCIES OCCUR, AS YOU WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE ASSESSED AND SUPPORTED YEAR IN EMPLOYMENT (ASYE) PROGRAMME.

There are no alternative dates available for the Children’s panel or formal interview. More Social Worker roles may become vacant across Children’s Services during this recruitment campaign therefore if you are deemed as appointable following the interview process you may be offered an alternative post.
For full details of the responsibilities and requirements of this role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

OUR WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

All council roles are allocated to either a fixed, field or flexible work style. Some roles are agile which enable and empowers employees to maximise their performance and productivity, whilst maintaining a healthy work life balance. Roles with a fixed workstyle work in a fixed permanent council location. Roles with a field workstyle are usually allocation where employees are required to be out working in the community with a minimum requirement for ‘touch down’ space at any council location. Roles with a flexible workstyle have a flexible base location to meet the needs of the business and employees can work from a mixture of home or any council office, partner/client, or external location, as required to meet service requirements.
Please refer to the Job Description for further information on the workstyle assigned to the role you are applying for.
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Please refer the Job description for details