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Salary: £41,418 to £44,428 per annum (£20,709 to £22,214 per annum, pro rata’d)
Working Pattern: 1 x Full time, 37 hours per week, 1 x Part time, 18.5 hours per week, flexible working options available.
Location: County Hall, Chichester or Bridge House, Worthing (Hybrid working)
Interview date: Thursday 11 April 2024
We have two fantastic opportunities in our Learning and Development function, currently seeking a qualified social worker to join us as our Children’s Learning and Development Specialist.
There are two posts on offer one full time and one part time post. These are offered as permanent positions.
We are committed to improving our services for the children and families we support in West Sussex. In May 2023 Ofsted Inspectors praised West Sussex County Council’s Children’s Services for its ‘relentless approach to improving practice,’
You will have the opportunity to design and deliver learning activities using a range of methods including face to face training courses and online courses delivered via webinar using MS Teams, interactive workshops and group facilitation, within a quality and professional framework, ensuring that learning objectives are met.
As a Children/Family Social Worker professional you will support all areas of Children’s Services Learning and Development for example Social work, family safeguarding, residential, leaving care and fostering and kinship services.
The role includes supporting service priorities such as the embedding of the Family Safeguarding Model and motivational interviewing techniques.
Family Safeguarding is a strengths-based model and a new way of working with families so that they can stay together, and children can remain safely at home. All our current staff are currently undergoing training on the new model and motivational interview.
What are we looking for?
To be our successful Children’s Learning & Development Specialist, you will need:
- Excellent collaborative working abilities, be effective in working in partnership to co-design solutions, and have confident presentation skills.
- The ability to work proactively and think creatively to produce learning solutions that achieve desired outcomes effectively, efficiently and within timeframes.
- To be able to establish and maintain credible working relationships with key stakeholders.
- To reflect our values and our empowering culture in all that you do, including the way you work with others, focusing on abilities, enablement, and solutions to achieve desired outcomes.
- Drive to support and enable others, to be the best that they can be and provide a great service.
- To demonstrate relevant advanced Social Work theory, practice and knowledge relating to the provision of a professional Social Work service.
- You will need an advanced understanding of therapeutic intervention.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS00777.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact James Hodge, (Learning & Development Team Manager) at james.hodge@westsussex.gov.uk. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equality, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
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Job Reference: CRS00777
