Senior Practitioner
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Total Social |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 202511255278462DMS |
Summary
Total Social are working with Stoke on Trent City Council who are looking for an experienced locum Social Worker for their Emergency Duty Team.
To offer a social work service which provides services to children and families outside of normal working hours which responds to out of hours referrals where intervention from the local authority is required to safeguard a vulnerable child and where it would not be safe, appropriate or lawful to delay that intervention to the next working day.
Qualifying candidates require at least three years’ post-qualifying experience in direct / permanent employment of an English local authority in children’s services.
To offer a social work service which provides services to children and families outside of normal working hours which responds to out of hours referrals where intervention from the local authority is required to safeguard a vulnerable child and where it would not be safe, appropriate or lawful to delay that intervention to the next working day.
Qualifying candidates require at least three years’ post-qualifying experience in direct / permanent employment of an English local authority in children’s services.