Derbyshire County Council
Job title:
Practice Supervisor
Company
Derbyshire County Council
Job description
Location
Victoria Street, Glossop
Reference
JOB/24/00354
Salary details
Grade 12 £41,765 – £45,149 per annum
Job term
Full Time
Appointment type
Permanent
Hours
37 hours per week
Closing Date
11 February 2024
About the role
Derbyshire County Council have an exciting opportunity for a caring and determined Practice Supervisor to join our Central Glossop & New Mills team based in Glossop.. This role offers progression and development, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to use your skills and experience to genuinely improve outcomes for children and young people.
We’re proud of our social work practice and commitment to children and their families in Derbyshire, our excellent supervision, systemic practice, manageable caseloads, innovative working, training opportunities and high aspirations for the children we work with.
What will you be doing?
- Providing practice supervision on all case work (group and one to one)
- Personal supervision to Social Workers within the team
- Undertaking a professional practice lead role within their designated area of service.
- Assisting the Team Manager in efficient and effective delivery of the Children’s Services Social Work Service.
- Demonstrating and championing systemic practice.
- Embedding Derbyshire’s operating model into all social work practice to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
What skills and experience do you need?
- Essential Qualifications (refer to job and person profile for more information).
- Experience of creating rapport and building effective relationships with families.
- Experience in enabling flexible and thoughtful social work practice and positive change.
Our Practice Supervisor Role attracts a starting salary of £41,765. with annual increments to £45,149 pro rata.
We believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:
- Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
- Effective leadership and management which helps to reduce risk for our social workers and the children and families they support
- Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
- Systemic training – for supervision and management
- A development programme (specific to your role) – to enable you to gain confidence and competence in your role and regularly network with your peers across the department
- Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities, worth over £5000, including leadership and management development.
- Corporate membership with Research in Practice – allowing access to reputable, evidence-based research, training, and resources
- Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways
- DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
- Social Work England registration fee reimbursed
For more information on Children and Family services and becoming a social worker in Derbyshire please visit
What benefits do we offer you?
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme
- travel expenses
- discount on leisure centre memberships
- free car parking at most sites
- an in-house counselling service
- occupational health service
- access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist
- cycle to work scheme
Provisional Interview Date: Week commencing 19 February 2024
Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
This is an Internal vacancy and is only available to employees of Derbyshire County Council, including temporary and relief employees and agency workers engaged by the Council. Employees specifically identified as ‘individually at risk’ of redundancy have priority interview status, and employees on pay protection have guaranteed interview status, for vacancies at the same grade or below. When applying for jobs please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that this status clearly stated on your application form. Please ask your manager if you are unsure of your status. School based employees who fall under the responsibility of the Governing body of an LA School are only able to apply for these posts if they are subject to notices of redundancy issued by the relevant school
Apply now and take the first step towards a fulfilling career with us! By joining Derbyshire County Council you will have access to a range of amazing rewards and employee benefits, including our generous annual leave scheme, excellent local government pension and fantastic employee discounts. To discover more detail about the rewards and benefits available to you, click
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Equality and diversity
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Expected salary
£41765 – 45149 per year
Location
Glossop, Derbyshire
Job date
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:51:32 GMT
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