Social Work Consultant
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 0EJ |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75705705 |
Summary
About the role
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate individual to join of Children’s Workforce Development Team as a Social Work Consultant.
Our Social Work Consultants are Advanced Social Work Practitioners which will require a high-level of children’s social work experience, multi-agency working and expertise to:
- model high standards of social work behaviour, values, and relational practice.
- ensure the safety, well-being and achieving improved outcomes for children and young people and their families remains central to everything we do.
- create a culture of innovative social work practice that supports a continuous cycle of practice development and improvement, which, in turn, improves outcomes for children and young people and their families.
- develop and maintain highly effective key internal and external learning partnerships to deliver high quality social work education to students, post qualifying continuing professional
- development and learning opportunities to ASYE’s and experienced social workers,
- provide professional social work development in accordance with national standards and practice skills for social workers, regional and local policies, and procedures.
- support the implementation of the children’s services practice model.
- deliver the Workforce Strategy including the delivery of a social work academy
- To support and deliver the Family Safeguarding Model of Practice across Children Social Care
- There will be the opportunity to support with wider council training delivery including GCP2 Neglect tools and Multi Agency Family Safeguarding Training.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.
Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Rae Capon on R.Capon@bury.gov.uk or 07458031433.
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