Newly Qualified Social Worker
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 March 2026 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 6BH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75788654 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £39,862 to Scale 34 - £45,091 with a professional bar at SCP 31 £41,771**
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Various locations throughout Tameside
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
Are you a newly qualified Social Worker looking to start your career? Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and families? Do you bring compassion, curiosity, collaboration, conversation, and courage to your practice? If so, Tameside is looking for you.
We have vacancies for Newly Qualified Social Workers across Children’s Services in Tameside.
We offer a supportive, nurturing ASYE year through our Social Work Academy, where you’ll be guided by a dedicated Advanced Practice Lead, alongside support from your Team Manager and Senior Practitioner. You will receive a bespoke induction that prepares you to work with children and families, as well as reflective supervision, specialist training, peer learning, coaching and mentoring, dedicated study time and a reduced caseload.
What you can expect:
- Enhanced support from our Social Work Academy
- Dedicated time to observe practice and complete core training
- An induction buddy to help you settle in
- Tailored professional development and ongoing support from the Academy
- Magic notes to support with recording
- A career pathway that supports your development
About You
You are a newly qualified social worker ready to champion our Heart of Support Practice Approach and begin your career grounded in strong, compassionate, relationshipbased practice. You bring curiosity, care and a commitment to learning, and you’re eager to develop your skills within an environment that nurtures, supports and invests in you.
You understand the importance of working alongside children and families with compassion, approaching each situation with empathy and respect. You bring curiosity, asking questions, seeking to understand lived experiences and exploring what matters to each child. You value collaboration, working with families, colleagues and partners to create meaningful plans. You prioritise open, thoughtful conversations that help children and families feel heard, understood and respected. You show courage, are willing to think critically, reflect, and make decisions that keep children safe.
You are someone who:
- Is committed to highquality, childcentred, relational practice
- Values reflective supervision, learning and continuous development
- Works collaboratively with families and partner agencies
- Is resilient, organised, and confident to ask for support when needed
- Brings energy, empathy and a genuine desire to make a positive difference
You are ready to grow, develop and build a strong professional foundation with the support of our Social Work Academy.
About Us
Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services
“I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.
“I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.
“We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.
“We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.
“I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.”
Our Heart of Support Practice Approach
At Tameside, we believe in:
- Compassion understanding the lived experiences of children and families.
- Curiosity asking questions that lead to deeper insight and better outcomes for children.
- Collaboration working together across services to deliver joined-up support.
- Conversation listening and engaging meaningfully with children, families and professionals.
- Courage leading with courage, making bold and compassionate decisions that put children first.
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
All appointments will be to the bottom salary point in the grade with annual incremental progression each April until the grade maximum is reached. Where an individual can provide evidence that their existing salary in a relevant role surpasses the grade starting salary, a higher entry salary will be considered, subject to the professional grade development criteria also being met if that point is higher than the bar point.
** 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
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. 0161 342 2339
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about these roles please contact Kayleigh Treanor Head of Quality Practice Assurance and Principal Social Worker via kayleigh.treanor@tameside.gov.uk or 0161 342 3398.
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