Designated Social Care Officer
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 6BH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75683029 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £49,764 to Scale 43 - £52,805 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £50,788**
Hours Per Week: 36
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 6BH
Interview Date: Thursday, 6th March 2025
The role
Tameside Children’s Services are looking for a committed and motivated social care professional to join our team. Designated Social Care Officer will act as the Council’s Lead Social Care Professional for children with special educational needs and disabilities and be vital to delivering our ambitious improvement agenda.
In this role you will be responsible for managing and developing approaches to ensure high quality social care input, driving change across the workforce and overseeing all social care referrals from the SEN team.
You will have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills, gain experience, and to progress your career with us in Children’s Services.
About you
You will have substantial experience of delivering a specialist service within a large organisation and expert technical /professional knowledge and experience.
We are looking for candidates with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, as well as proven ability to communicate persuasively to a wide range of audiences.
Why work for us?
You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.
In Tameside we like to look after our employees and also offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:
- A minimum of 28 days leave per year based on service with the option to buy additional leave
- 36 hours working week
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing Support
- Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 3764 / Karen.Somerville@tameside.gov.uk or 0161 3425 056 / Nik.Joseph@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT602
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