Halton Borough Council
Job title:
Frontline Consultant Social Worker
Company
Halton Borough Council
Job description
Frontline Consultant Social Worker (CSW)
Local authority: Halton Borough Council
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Grade 10
Application deadline: 13/03/24
What is Frontline?
is England’s largest social work charity. Everything we do aims to make life better for children who need a social worker, to help keep them safe from harm and to give them every possible chance to fulfil their potential. We do this through developing excellent social work practice, leadership and innovation.
One of the ways we make this happen is by recruiting and teaching a new, diverse generation of social workers specialising in child protection to join our Frontline programme. The programme is a two-year social work training programme for graduates and career changers.
What is a Consultant Social Worker?
The Consultant Social Worker (CSW) role is pivotal to the participants’ first year on the programme. Each CSW is responsible for four participants who are undertaking their Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work. CSWs work with participants using a unit model approach – a systemic practice model for working with families, with cases managed through weekly unit meetings. These meetings provide a dynamic learning environment and a reflective space to think systemically about the cases in the unit.
The role offers those who wish to remain in practice the opportunity to do so alongside the chance to take on supervisory and management responsibility for a small team. For more information about the exact responsibilities of a CSW, please see the CSW job pack.
What will I get from the role?
The Consultant Social Worker position offers the opportunity to:
- Step up to a management-level role without leaving practice.
- Access to a high-quality systemic training programme.
- Demonstrate through a portfolio of work that you meet the Practice Educator Professional Standards (Stage 2).
- Receive support and mentoring from one of Frontline’s practice tutors.
- Influence and shape practice, and practice education, across your local authority.
How to apply: * Complete an application form: follow
- Anonymous scoring: the panel, which includes a representative from Frontline and the local authority, will anonymously score the applications. These scores will be carried forward and considered in the overall hiring decision, should you be progressed to the next stage.
- Attend an interview: if shortlisted, you will be asked to complete a role play and interview.
Interviews will be held on 26th March 2024.
If you have any questions about the application process or the role, please contact Susanne Leece on 0151 511 7269
Expected salary
Location
Halton, Cheshire
Job date
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:00:48 GMT
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