Experienced Social Worker - 37 Hours bei Torbay Council
Torbay Council · Torquay, Vereinigtes Königreich · Onsite
- Professional
- Optionales Büro in Torquay
Job Description & Person Specification >
Torbay Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) have a rare opportunity for you to join us as an experienced Social Worker in our busy and highly supportive team of Social Care, Police, Health, Education and Probation.
Torbay have been on an exciting improvement journey and are making a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. OFSTED praised our MASH stating ‘Clear and well-established systems provide timely and effective management oversight of referrals. The co-location of early help coordinators with professionals from partner agencies who have a responsibility for safeguarding adds value, leading to swift and proportionate threshold decisions.’
You will be highly motivated and confident in supportively challenging our partners when working through contacts and referrals. You will be skilled in gathering information from a range of sources to formulate a high-quality analysis and make a sound threshold decision within 24 hours of receiving a referral. You will have excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise and be able to incorporate safety planning into your decision making. This is an office based role.
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. Don't take our word for it, come and meet us and we will talk about, and introduce you to people just like you who have benefited from the opportunities we offer. If you are thinking about it, don't hesitate, pick up the phone or hit the keyboard. You have nothing to lose!
This post meets the requirements for an Enhanced Criminal Record Check. This will show spent and unspent convictions and adult cautions which have not been filtered in line with legislation, plus any information held by local Police that is considered relevant to the role.
If you are viewing this advert on a job board, you can access the full job description by placing the below URL into your browser:
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/jobs/job-descriptions/experienced-social-worker/
For an informal chat please contact Polly Tresidder on 01803 208100 or [email protected].
Interviews are expected to be conducted during the week commencing 6th October 2025.
Our adverts do sometimes close early - even where there's a published deadline - so if you're keen, please apply as soon as possible.
Torbay Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) have a rare opportunity for you to join us as an experienced Social Worker in our busy and highly supportive team of Social Care, Police, Health, Education and Probation.
Torbay have been on an exciting improvement journey and are making a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. OFSTED praised our MASH stating ‘Clear and well-established systems provide timely and effective management oversight of referrals. The co-location of early help coordinators with professionals from partner agencies who have a responsibility for safeguarding adds value, leading to swift and proportionate threshold decisions.’
You will be highly motivated and confident in supportively challenging our partners when working through contacts and referrals. You will be skilled in gathering information from a range of sources to formulate a high-quality analysis and make a sound threshold decision within 24 hours of receiving a referral. You will have excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise and be able to incorporate safety planning into your decision making. This is an office based role.
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. Don't take our word for it, come and meet us and we will talk about, and introduce you to people just like you who have benefited from the opportunities we offer. If you are thinking about it, don't hesitate, pick up the phone or hit the keyboard. You have nothing to lose!
This post meets the requirements for an Enhanced Criminal Record Check. This will show spent and unspent convictions and adult cautions which have not been filtered in line with legislation, plus any information held by local Police that is considered relevant to the role.
If you are viewing this advert on a job board, you can access the full job description by placing the below URL into your browser:
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/jobs/job-descriptions/experienced-social-worker/
For an informal chat please contact Polly Tresidder on 01803 208100 or [email protected].
Interviews are expected to be conducted during the week commencing 6th October 2025.
Our adverts do sometimes close early - even where there's a published deadline - so if you're keen, please apply as soon as possible.
Skills
Essential:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to demonstrate skills in mediation, negotiation and problem solving.
- Able to assess situations with clarity and sensitivity and act professionally in crisis situations.
- Ability to work in an open and challenging way with families.
- Ability to mentor others that upholds and promotes the ethical principles and values that guide professional practice and thereby ensures compliance with policies.
This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
Knowledge
Essential:
- Good understanding of the full range of activities delivered by the Authority and partners in relation to children, young people and families.
- Has a developed knowledge of Social Care policies and procedures, and makes themselves continually aware of new Child Care legislation and National Guidance.
- Awareness of effective management practices.
- Thorough understanding of current legislation and guidance and developments in services to children young people and families.
- Demonstrates an advanced and detailed knowledge of child development, attachment theory, anti-discriminatory practice, the framework for assessment of children in need and their families, social work theory and methods.
Experience & Qualifications
Essential:
- Significant post qualification experience of working with children and families in the context of current legislation and government initiatives.
- For Social work professionals, experience of complex Child Protection cases and Court proceedings under the Children’s Act 1989.
- Commitment to evidence of applying an evidenced informed practice approach.
- Experience of working under pressure and making robust evidenced informed decisions.
- Demonstrate advanced and detailed skills in direct work with children and young persons, carers and families.
