Job Introduction
Salary: Band 11, £45,718 to £49,764 plus a recruitment and retention package of £3,000 market supplement per annum, paid monthly, pro-rata if part-time.
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week). Part time hours can be considered.
Closing date: Sunday 23 March 2025, 23:59
The Service:
The Children, Families & Education Service provide social work/care support and intervention with children, young people and their parents/carers. We are committed to being on an active anti-racist journey. In 2024 we signed up to the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES). The WRES programme aims to progress workforce race equality in adult and children's social care and empower local authorities to address any gaps or concerns of inequality in their workforce.
Your New Role:
You will take professional responsibility for managing a complex caseload, using assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation. You will use professional judgement, employing a range of interventions and taking the lead in managing positive intervention. You will play a leading role in practice development, helping promote and sustain a learning culture and mentoring less experienced staff. You will deliver formal professional reflective supervision, provide guidance and advice to less experienced qualified staff, and share and present professional knowledge and expertise to colleagues.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll need to succeed:
You have a social work qualification (degree, diploma or equivalent) and are registered with Social Work England. You are currently be practising at an Experienced Social Worker level, i.e. Social Worker with substantial experience, and understand relevant legislation. You can offer high support and high challenge to families and professionals ensuring anti discriminatory practice and equal opportunities is adhered to. You can influence and engage social workers, managers and senior leaders to embed the very best anti-racist practice based upon research. You are a confident facilitator with a keen interest in social justice, practice education and anti-oppressive practice. You have a full UK driving licence or can show that you are taking lessons.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Additional Information:
The full job profile is attached below.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Julia Newton, Service Leader, Julia.newton@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 437 848
A commitment to our values:
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
Application process:
How to complete your application: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/support-for-applicants/
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Click on the 'Apply' button to register or log into your applicant account, complete our profile builder, and enter your personal statement. In your personal statement, please detail why you feel you are suitable for the role using the 'Who is the Person' section of the job profile.
If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that your application will be successful.
Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body. Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding children's roles.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Why come to live and work in Portsmouth?
Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work. Portsmouth has a strong history of partnership working and has successfully integrated several local services.
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership safer recruitment procedures.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.
