[ref. s789921] Principal Social Worker
Are you ready to become our next Principal Social Worker? We are looking for an ambitious and experienced social work qualified leader, ready to play a central role in Gloucestershire’s journey to offering good and outstanding services. If you are looking for a new challenge and share our vision and values then we would love to hear from you!
About the role:
Our newly developed Principal Social Worker post places this role at the heart of our children’s services improvement journey. Building on our work to date, you will lead and develop practice across the authority to achieve our ambition to offer good or outstanding support to all the children and families that we work with.
You will lead our innovative Academy and continue our implementation of systemic practice, ensuring that practitioners are clear about what this means and are embodying this approach. You will also be responsible for ensuring an excellent workforce development offer, leading changes within the Social Work Academy to enhance its reach and remit.You will drive forward our ambition to put the voices and experiences of children, young people and their families at the heart of everything that we do, ensuring our practice standards are embedded across the authority.
Representing the voices of practitioners, this post will play a key role in building collaborative relationships across the authority, acting as a bridge to senior managers and ensuring that leaders are creating the conditions that allow social work practice to thrive.
You will have opportunities to be creative, challenging and innovative as you lead and deliver new projects, developments and service improvements. You will be an inspirational leader, able to engage, motivate and inspire colleagues and partners in their work with children and families.
About us:
Enchanting Cotswold villages, picturesque countryside backdrops, and a never-ending selection of exciting days out, attractions and events; Gloucestershire really does have something for everyone. Gloucestershire is the perfect place to live and work with a great mix of rural and city locations.Find out more about living and working in Gloucestershire.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join Gloucestershire County Council. You can be confident of becoming part of a welcoming, passionate, innovative, and highly supportive team.
About you:
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.
As our Principal Social Worker, you will need to embody these values in everything that you do, acting as a role model for practitioners and holding others to account.
In Gloucestershire, we believe that our relationship with children and families is the basis of our intervention and are passionate about working in a way that promotes sustainable change. If you share our commitment to working with children and families in this way, then we want to hear from you!
In exchange for your commitment and enthusiasm, we will provide you with full training and support to enable you to succeed in your role.
Please note you must hold a full driving licence and have the willingness to drive (exceptions under the Equality Act may apply)
Reward and support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- between £61,174 - £66,223 per annum subject to experience
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 30.5 days annual leave
- option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- cycle to work scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy
We’re closer than you think:
We are an easy commute from many locations, view our commuting times map to see what we mean. However, we understand that commuting isn’t for everyone, so if you are in the process of relocating, why not email us to discuss opportunities further.
- For interested professionals located in Wales and Scotland, please contact us to discuss your application.
Applying:
If you are interested in applying please do so by 8th March or for any questions please email Ceri.Woszczyk@gloucestershire.gov.uk