Job type: Children's Services

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £43,488 to £46,549 (Includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 37

Location: Torquay

An exciting opportunity exists for the role of Advanced Social Worker in Operational Services.

We are seeking to appoint an individual who is highly motivated to safeguarding children at risk. We are a service committed to putting the safety of children at the centre of everything we do. To be successful in this role you will need be tenacious and passionate about this area of work.

The role will involve managing complex caseloads, and helping to establish a restorative practice led culture of continual improvement and quality assurance. As the Advanced Social Work in your team, you will be the lead on ensuring compliance and practice standards are maintained to the highest level. You will lead by example and work with social workers with varying experience from newly qualified upwards. You will also provide supervision and be expected to participate in specialist project work across the whole service. This is an exciting but challenging role that should be seen as a step towards management opportunities in the future. In return for your commitment and hard work, Torbay will support you with relevant training and development opportunities delivered via its new Learning Academy.

We are committed to a restorative and relational model of working ‘WITH’ our children and young people so they remain at the heart of our practice. Restorative and relational based practice describes a way of being, an underpinning ethos, which enables us to build and maintain healthy relationships, resolve difficulties and repair harm when relationships breakdown.

DBS disclosure is required for this job

For an informal discussion please contact Mimi Taylor at mimi.taylor@torbay.gov.uk

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Reference Number: CSESW

Job type: Childrens Social Care

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £39,225 to £42,503 (includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 37

Location: Tor Hill House
Union Street
Torquay
TQ2 5QW

Join Torbay Children's Services as an Experienced Social Worker and you'll be part of a progressive team dedicated to making young lives everything they should be. We’ve responded to the pandemic by raising our game, both in our service development and the support we’ve shown our people.

Together, we’re responding to some serious challenges.

Child abuse, exploitation and neglect don’t just damage young lives, they destroy promising futures before they even get a chance to be lived. Our transformation has lowered caseloads, increased training and supervision, developed brilliant external partnerships and introduced sector-leading technology.

And it's starting to bear fruit. OFSTED praised both the visibility of our Senior Leadership Team, our agile response to the pandemic, and the progress we continue to make, both in maintaining services and developing virtual ones by working strategically with our partners. The successful introduction of our new service model, these factors, the reports state has 'helped to accelerate the pace of change over the past six months.'

As part of our improvement journey, we are looking to recruit experienced social workers across a number of key teams including Operational Services, Single Assessment and Children Looked After.

Good social workers are at the heart of everything we do. You'll manage a complex, varied caseload, as well as acting as a mentor to less experienced team members - providing them with coaching and guidance so that they can develop their skills to support families to build resilience and facilitate positive change.

In return, you can look forward to a career-defining Academy that champions and underpins personal and professional growth. Not to mention our reflective supervision model that is a vibrant mix of informal and structured oversight, offering you protected time to think.

Furthermore, you will receive a comprehensive and rewarding all-round package, excellent training and development, subsidised parking, good administrative support and high-quality technology.

We welcome applications for this post and will consider your CV along with a covering letter.

Your covering letter must answer the following questions as well as an explanation for any gaps in employment on your CV:

• What qualities would you bring to the role of Senior Practitioner, and how would you use these to develop staff whilst also supporting the manager?
• Managing competing priorities and meeting deadlines/timescales on your own caseload is a requirement of this role. How would you achieve this when supporting others at the same time?
• What do you see are the benefits of supervision and how would use it to get the best from your manager?

Please note that whilst we will shortlist and arrange interviews using a CV, a full application form will need to be completed should you be successful.

Please send your covering letter and CV to Children'sRecruitment@torbay.gov.uk

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Reference Number: CSNQSW

Job type: Children's Services

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £34,723 to £37,261

Number of hours: 37

Location: Tor Hill House
Union Street
Torquay
TQ2 5QW

Working in Torbay as a ASYE Social Worker has been described by a member of our current cohort as the ‘best place to work’ (December 2017). Our aim is to provide you with an Assessed and Supported Year in Employment with the emphasis on support! From the outset the learner agreement will set out what you understand to be your learning needs following the completion of your qualifying social work degree. This process will include reviewing the Knowledge and Skills Statements to ensure we target those areas you need support in most. Following this you will be able to review your learning needs at four and six months as we recognise that you ‘don’t know, what you don’t know’ and sometimes you need to be in a team and undertaking casework to find this out. You’ll be supported with regular supervision as well as high quality learning and development opportunities.

Within Torbay we’re a little unique and we have an established Joint Preceptorship that enables you to access four days of learning and development with newly qualified health professionals such as health Visitors and midwives. This has proved a successful way to support newly qualified professionals in developing quality multi-agency working practices. We know from our health colleagues inspection that this approach doesn’t happen anywhere else in the country.

Torbay can also offer you cutting edge technology to support you within your role, and if this makes you nervous don’t worry there is IT training on hand to support this area too.

So if you’re a newly qualified social worker looking to work across the three towns of Torbay (Brixham, Paignton and Torquay) follow the links below to download a job description and apply today.

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Job type: Children's Services

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £47,594 to £50,703 (includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 37

Location: Torquay

At Torbay Children's Services, we know that Child exploitation, abuse and neglect don’t just shatter young lives, they ruin so much human potential.

Here, the fight against this social disease has gone up several gears. We’ve invested millions in a completely new approach that has lowered caseloads, transformed training, developed brilliant external partnerships and introduced sector-leading technology.

We're now looking for confident, experienced and inspirational social work practitioners to play an influential role in taking our new improvement philosophy to the next level. As one of our first-line managers, you'll ensure we achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and families across the area.

We have a number of roles for Team Managers in Operational Services and Single Assessment.

You'll manage a small team of dedicated and committed social work practitioners, support good performance and robust quality assurance processes, and help staff to continually develop so that they have the skills needed to build resilience and facilitate positive change.

You'll have impressive post-qualification experience working with children and families, within current legislation and government initiatives.

In return, you can look forward to a career-defining Academy that champions and underpins personal and professional growth. Not to mention our reflective supervision model that is a vibrant mix of informal and structured oversight, offering you protected time to think.

Furthermore, you'll receive a comprehensive and rewarding all-round package, subsidised parking, good administrative support and high-quality technology.

We welcome applications for this post and will consider your CV along with a covering letter.

Your covering letter must answer the following questions as well as an explanation for any gaps in employment on your CV:

• What skills will you bring to the role of team manager?
• Much of social work is about working in partnership with other agencies both statutory and voluntary. Who do you see as the key partners and describe how you would improve this working together.
• What do you see as benefits of supervision? How would you use it to support your team and also to get the best from your line manager?

Please note that whilst we will shortlist and arrange interviews using a CV, a full application form will need to be completed should you be successful.

Please send your covering letter and CV to Children'sRecruitment@torbay.gov.uk

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Reference Number: CSSW

Job type: Childrens Social Care

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £34,723 to £42,503 (includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 37

Location: Tor Hill House
Union Street
Torquay
TQ2 5QW

Join Torbay Children's Services as a social worker and you'll be part of a resurgent team taking an ambitious new approach to very challenging work.

Child abuse, exploitation and neglect don’t just damage young lives, they destroy promising futures before they even get a chance to be lived.

Our transformation has lowered caseloads, increased training and supervision, developed brilliant external partnerships and introduced sector-leading technology.

And it's starting to bear fruit. OFSTED concluded that the ‘Senior Leadership Team is now well placed to continue to deliver the ambitious and well-targeted plan.’ As part of our improvement journey, we are looking to recruit experienced social workers across a number of key teams including Operational Services, Single Assessment and Children Looked After.

Good social workers are at the heart of everything we do. 

In return, you can look forward to a career-defining Academy that champions and underpins personal and professional growth. Not to mention our reflective supervision model that is a vibrant mix of informal and structured oversight, offering you protected time to think.

Furthermore, you will receive a comprehensive and rewarding all-round package, excellent training and development, subsidised parking, good administrative support and high-quality technology.

We welcome applications for this post and will consider your CV along with a covering letter.

Your covering letter must answer the following questions as well as an explanation for any gaps in employment on your CV:

• What do you see as the fundamental core skills of a children and families social worker?
• What assessment approaches/models have you used and why?
• What do you see are the benefits of supervision and how would you use it to get the best
  from your manager?

Please note that whilst we will shortlist and arrange interviews using a CV, a full application form will need to be completed should you be successful.

Please send your covering letter and CV to Children'sRecruitment@torbay.gov.uk

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Job type: Children's Services

Employment Contract: Part Time - Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £34,723 to £42,503 (includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 29.6

Location:

Torbay is now progressing well in its improvement journey and this is an exciting opportunity to work in a beautiful area of the country.

Good social workers are at the heart of everything we do. You will be required to create positive relationships with children, their parents and carers and wider families as well as partners and colleagues, demonstrate sound abilities in risk assessment and planning, mediation, child-centred and restorative practice, negotiation and problem solving.

You will receive good management support with a focus on your professional development, a competitive salary, subsidised parking, the opportunity to be part of continued professional development through Torbay’s Learning Academy, good administrative support and cutting edge technology, to enable you to capture information whilst out in the field and upload onto case management systems automatically.

We would like to invite applications from social workers who want to support our cared for children and the implementation of their permanency plans. Specifically, the post holder will support cared for children across the range of permanency planning, from children with a plan of long term fostering to children with plans of reunification or family placement to children with plans of adoption. This is a great opportunity for a skilled and dynamic social worker with experience in working with cared for children in a wide variety of placement settings. You will be a strong advocate for children, and someone who is passionate and focused about improving the outcomes for cared for children.

We will consider applications for Full and Part time.

** DBS disclosure is required for this job**

For an informal discussion please contact Kelly Gosney on tel: 07795 603128 or by email: kelly.gosney@torbay.gov.uk  

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Job type: Children's Services

Employment Contract: Full Time - Permanent

Salary: £47,594 to £50,703 (includes Market Supplement)

Number of hours: 37

Location: Torquay

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Team Manager in our Operational service, with responsibility for a social work team working with Children in Need and Child Protection.

You will have the necessary skills and experience to provide clear direction, support and guidance through management oversight and review at key stages of the child’s journey. You will be able to provide restorative and reflective supervision to develop and support the skills and knowledge of your team.

You will be solution-focused and most importantly, want to provide high-quality services which make a difference to children’s lives.

The current duty rota requires you to be the Duty Team Manager once every 5 weeks, during this week you are responsible for managing all the strategy discussions and s47 investigations during that week.

Essential requirements of this Team Manager role:

• An inspirational leader with excellent management skills and the ability to encourage team working.
• A Qualified Social Worker with significant experience in Children's Services
• Experience of supervising or managing a team
• Substantial experience within the court arena
• You will require knowledge of the latest policy and guidance around children's social care and safeguarding
• Be able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills, a head for complexity, and know how to improve services.

This is a key role within the organisation and you will need to be experienced enough to successfully provide strong and effective leadership so that you can positively influence the development of your team.

For an informal discussion please contact Brenda Nakamya on 01803 207859.

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