Contract Type: Permanent

 

Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £37,336 to Scale 34 - £42,403 with a professional bar at Scale 31- £39,186**

 

Hours: 36 hours per week

Base Location: Jubilee Gardens, Gardenfold Way, Droylsden, M43 7XU

Closing Date: 26th April 2024

Assessment Date: To be arranged

 

The role 

As children with disabilities social worker, you will be joining a multi-agency team supporting disabled children and their families. You will be working alongside colleagues from multi-disciplinary professions including health and education who are also passionate about delivering the best possible services for disabled children.

 

Your role will include undertaking assessments underpinned by the Signs of Safety Model, child focused plans and reviewing short break care packages. Your caseload will range from child in need and child protection to looked after children where you may be working with a child until they reach 18 years of age and coordinate their transition to adult services.

 

About you 

We are looking for an experienced social worker who can undertake effective assessments of need in an innovative way with the ability to co-ordinate the provision of the appropriate services

 

About us 

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.

 

For further details about this role or informal discussion, please get in touch with Kerry Dalston, our Team Manager on 07970 027 462  or kerry.dalston@tameside.gov.uk   

 

 

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

 

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. 

 

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.

 

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

 

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We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.