About the role
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust is proud to have established its very own
Northamptonshire Social Work Academy. We are offering a highly competitive pay and benefits package with generous annual leave and bespoke learning and training opportunities.
Please read on to learn more…..
Any issues, please contact our recruitment team: RecruitmentHub@NCTrust.co.uk
For more information on Northamptonshire’s teams and what it is like to work for us, please visit our website here.
This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role. Enhanced DBS clearance and SW England required. Some posts in MASH and First Response (s47) teams are based in the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) and are therefore subject to annual vetting by Northamptonshire Police. This clearance is required to undertake the role.
What will you be doing?
- Smaller caseloads – to help you settle into your role
- Hands-on learning with high levels of support and mentoring
- Extensive training opportunities
- Strong mentors overseeing your development
About you
We want to create a workforce that we can be proud of, so to make this happen, we need brilliant NQSWs who inspire and deliver change all around them. That's why we’re looking for talented, ambitious and passionate people like you to come and join us. You will need to be a Social Work graduate with the following attributes:
- A passion to improve the lives of children
- Ambition and motivation
- Commitment to continuously developing your social work practice
- Ideally have pre-qualified children’s social care work experience
- Be degree qualified in Social Work
- Be up to date with current legislation/policy/procedures around child protection
- Able to work under pressure, excellent organisational ability
- Have knowledge/understanding of using appropriate assessment tools and research.
Our benefits
- Highly competitive salaries
- Retention bonuses for established personnel
- Social Work England registration costs
- Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share
- The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
- Monthly high-quality supervision
- 28 Day’s holiday entitlement plus bank holidays
- Once qualified opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
- Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme
- Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
- Employee discount schemes
- Signs of Safety training
- An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
- Heavily subsidised city centre parking
- Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO
- Candidates will need obtain Enhanced DBS, Social Work England Registration
Please submit your completed application form, detailing your experience to date and why you feel this is the right role for you.
About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.
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