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Social Worker
| Posting date: | 05 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £36,648 to £39,186 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2024 |
| Location: | Caerphilly, Caerphilly County |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Caerphilly County Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ0009616 |
Summary
We are recruiting a Social Worker at Caerphilly County Borough Council.
Working hours: 37 Hours
Contract Type: Permanent/Full Time
Location: Various Locations across the Borough
We pay an attractive salary of £36,648 - £39,186 and offer access to training and development opportunities.
Are you an experienced or recently graduated social worker and wish to become more specialised in a dedicated field of practice?
The Children with Disability Team could help you achieve this.
Successful candidates will be supported to further develop their knowledge of social work practice with vulnerable children, including the principles of care and support, child protection and court work; developing an enhanced knowledge of a range of different disabilities, they will gain an understanding of the benefits and challenges of multi-agency working; provided opportunity to develop their existing skills and knowledge.
The Children with disability teams work with children from the age of 0-18 years with a permanent and substantial disability, this opportunity enables the successful candidate to develop their expertise and knowledge within the field of disability with a wide age range of individuals, focusing upon working with children, their families and carers.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a supportive team. You will be committed to improving outcomes for children and promote the child’s wishes and feelings in line with what matters.
Caerphilly has adopted an agile approach to working all necessary equipment to enable this is provided. Office cover is arranged on a rota basis through the working week. Caerphilly is also pro-active in staff development and supports the CPEL framework of career development for registered social workers.
For the role, we ask that you have:
1. A Diploma/Degree in Social Work or predecessor and Successful completion of the Consolidation of Practice qualification within the first three years of practice (if qualified after 1st April 2016)
2. Knowledge of the social care legislative framework e.g. Social Services and Wellbeing Act, Children’s Act, Mental Capacity Act, etc
3. Full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business / work purposes to travel throughout the borough to attend meetings, visit clients
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns and staff discount schemes.
After reading the Job Description and Person Specification on our website, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Catherine Doran on 01495 235622 or email doranc@caerphilly.gov.uk
Working hours: 37 Hours
Contract Type: Permanent/Full Time
Location: Various Locations across the Borough
We pay an attractive salary of £36,648 - £39,186 and offer access to training and development opportunities.
Are you an experienced or recently graduated social worker and wish to become more specialised in a dedicated field of practice?
The Children with Disability Team could help you achieve this.
Successful candidates will be supported to further develop their knowledge of social work practice with vulnerable children, including the principles of care and support, child protection and court work; developing an enhanced knowledge of a range of different disabilities, they will gain an understanding of the benefits and challenges of multi-agency working; provided opportunity to develop their existing skills and knowledge.
The Children with disability teams work with children from the age of 0-18 years with a permanent and substantial disability, this opportunity enables the successful candidate to develop their expertise and knowledge within the field of disability with a wide age range of individuals, focusing upon working with children, their families and carers.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a supportive team. You will be committed to improving outcomes for children and promote the child’s wishes and feelings in line with what matters.
Caerphilly has adopted an agile approach to working all necessary equipment to enable this is provided. Office cover is arranged on a rota basis through the working week. Caerphilly is also pro-active in staff development and supports the CPEL framework of career development for registered social workers.
For the role, we ask that you have:
1. A Diploma/Degree in Social Work or predecessor and Successful completion of the Consolidation of Practice qualification within the first three years of practice (if qualified after 1st April 2016)
2. Knowledge of the social care legislative framework e.g. Social Services and Wellbeing Act, Children’s Act, Mental Capacity Act, etc
3. Full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business / work purposes to travel throughout the borough to attend meetings, visit clients
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns and staff discount schemes.
After reading the Job Description and Person Specification on our website, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Catherine Doran on 01495 235622 or email doranc@caerphilly.gov.uk
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