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Social Worker - Corporate Parenting Team
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Central Bedfordshire Council, Chicksands, Central Bedfordshire
- Remote working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted 1 day ago, 27 May
Job ref: e03a7c586d684f2ab5b695fc74bb8394
Full Job Description
Our ideal candidate will have confidence in planning, implementing, reviewing, and evaluating interventions and plans to ensure great outcomes for children. Being responsible for achieving and supporting permanence planning for Children in Care, you will be skilled in developing and maintaining working relationships with children, young adults and the networks around them, ensuring support planning is specific to their needs and wishes.
Here in Central Bedfordshire, we have exciting plans to continue to shape how we work with families and their children. Having recently launched a new dedicated Corporate Parenting Service that brings the Fostering teams and Children in care and beyond teams together, we are looking to recruit a new social work role who will be key in supporting the development of the kinship local offer and approach.
The role will be very varied, no two days will look the same and you will work closely alongside all our teams in the Corporate Parenting Service to ensure our children in care have the opportunity to live within their family network where we are able to achieve this safely for them.
Relationship based practice sits at the core of everything we do by working with children, families and their natural networks to build on their strengths. Our workforce told Ofsted that they enjoy working for Central Bedfordshire and feel well supported by visible and caring managers and senior leaders and Ofsted also recognised the level of support available through a wide range of relevant training and development opportunities which help our practitioners undertake reflective and effective quality work with children and their families and networks.
We are looking for Social Workers with a 'can do' attitude, who are child focussed, like to think outside of the box and are creative in their planning with children. It doesn't matter whether you are starting out in your social work career, returning to practice or an experienced worker looking for a new challenge either in a different field or new authority, if you are passionate about making a difference, these roles are for you!
Please be advised that having access to your own transport and willingness to travel is an essential requirement for this role.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this .
Our are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Laura Gavrilla at
Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free weekly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours.
More information about this service can be found here
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