Qualified social workers in our Children’s Social Work Teams benefit from:
- A one-off welcome payment of £3,000
- All Social Workers and Team Managers receive a retention payment of £3,500 per annum (in place for two years, paid in instalments).
Our ILACS in January 2024 found some key practice strengths in our Children’s Social Work Teams. Child protection work was found to be timely and appropriate, with a clear understanding of risks for children with timely assessment and support to families which is preventing drift and delay for children in proceedings. Many social workers know their children well and build positive relationships with them. For most children, decision-making for them to come into care is appropriate and in their best interests.
Through our new three-year plan, Heading for Excellence, we are building on these strengths with a programme designed to ensure all children and young people experience high quality assessment and planning which improves wider outcomes for them, keeping families together where possible and working closely with partners to keep children and young people safe, improve attendance, educational attainment, health and wellbeing. Heading for Excellence is focused on the creation of a high-performing and well-supported workforce delivering our trauma informed, restorative and strengths-based practice approach. We are determined that within the next three years we will deliver good and outstanding outcomes for all of the children and young people we are working with.
We would like to hear from qualified social workers who are interested in joining our core Children’s Social Work Teams.
You will be committed to strong relationship driven practice and have experience in working directly with children and families to enable risks to be identified and managed and to bring about improved outcomes, this includes a team dedicated to outcomes for disabled children. You will be joining a service which is working effectively with families where children are on child protection plans and subject to PLO, including developing permanence plans for children newly entering care.
We offer a supportive team environment, a commitment to manageable workloads, high quality support and supervision, and access to excellent learning and development opportunities from our Plymouth Academy to support you to develop at all stages of your career.
You must be a qualified social worker, registered with Social Work England and will be committed to the national statutory post qualifying standards for your own continuing professional development, joining an authority where these are nationally recognised as well embedded. You should demonstrate in your written statement key areas of learning and progression in your own journey.
If you want to hear more about the great things that are happening in Plymouth Children’s Services drop us an email at abrightfuture@plymouth.gov.uk and we will be in touch.