Newly Qualified Social Worker - ASYE

Salary: £34,834 - £36,648

Hours per week : 37 hours

Interview date: Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May 2024

Families and Children’s Services - Empowering Young Lives

Are you a 3rd year student or have you just completed your social work degree? Are you starting to look for your first social work position? Then look no further!

We are now accepting applications for the next cohort of Newly Qualified Social Workers to join our Families and Children’s Service.

We are recruiting in teams across Wiltshire including: Support and Safeguarding and Children in Care, Children Young People and Disabilities Team.

Locations available: Trowbridge, Chippenham, Devizes and Salisbury

Our Families and Children's service provides a high quality, efficient and effective social work service. This is an opportunity to join our supportive and friendly team as a Newly Qualified Social Worker, working within a great environment where you’ll be supported.

You will work with a dedicated ASYE Development Manager and receive supervision twice a month, as well as informal support and ongoing guidance for practice. You will receive ongoing training and development which is designed by our designated ASYE Co-ordinator, and you will finish with an end of year group celebration.

If successful in interview, we will offer you a post on successful completion of your degree and the opportunity in the interim to be a paid employee as a Key Worker full or part time ahead of your Social Work England registration on a salary of £33,945 per annum (pro rata for part time staff).

Why us?

In addition to our ASYE programme, we provide a range of learning and development opportunities - not just at the start of your career but across the professional capabilities’ framework. Grounded in relationship-based practice, opportunities are varied and ongoing such as a newly developed innovative fund for developing practice by shadowing in organisations.

Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply as well as Our Identity .

For more details, contact Hannah Munns, Team Manager Support and Safeguarding at Hannah.Munns@wiltshire.gov.uk , or call 01249 705569 x25569 or Leanne Dicks, Team Manager Children in Care at Leanne.Dicks@wiltshire.gov.uk or call 012257 12534 x12534.

This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.

We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read our statement of commitment to equality and inclusion .

Disability Confident Employer

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