Experienced Social Worker / Senior Practitioners - Assessment & Intervention Service

We’re Kirklees – Come and Join our team

Are you a committed and enthusiastic Social Worker with a breadth of experience? Are you looking for a new opportunity in an innovative and supportive environment?

We are currently recruiting Experienced Social Workers/Senior Practitioners to join our Assessment & Intervention team.

We are looking for experienced practitioners who are able to demonstrate that they:

• Have a commitment to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare
• Have experience in a social care setting with ability to assess needs, identify appropriate social work interventions, plan, prioritise and evaluate
• Have communication and collaboration skills to build productive working relationships in a multi-agency environment
• Have the ability to engage individuals, families and carers and use their views to inform assessments, plans and interventions
•  Have up-to-date knowledge of relevant trends, policies, regulation and safeguarding 
• proactively use supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches and understand the boundaries of professional accountability
• Can co-work and mentor less experienced practitioners
• Are willing to work towards Practice Educator Level 1 or 2 or already have a Practice Educator qualification.

 We offer:

• A Restorative Practice approach to social work which involves innovation and locality working with high quality relationships at the heart of our approach.
• You will work with manageable caseloads and we will ensure that you have high-quality professional development and receive high standards of induction, supervision and management.
• Your emotional well being is very important to us and each area has an emotional well being champion ensuring we have emotionally resilient practitioners.
• We have a bespoke learning and development offer at all levels of social work allowing you access to professional development opportunities enabling you to develop and progress your career. Our well-established career structure also supports us to develop our own managers and leaders.

For more information or to have an informal discussion please call 01484 221000 and ask for:

Assessment & Intervention Service Managers 

Joanne Simpson joanne.simpson@kirklees.gov.uk

Sarah Schofield sarah.schofield@kirklees.gov.uk

Faye Sykes faye.sykes@kirklees.gov.uk

Adele Lakey Adele.lakey@kirklees.gov.uk