We have an exciting vacancy in our team for a senior social worker to support and develop the practice of newly qualified social workers on the ASYE Programme and also the Advanced Year participants. This role will be managed by the deputy team manager and ASYE lead in the social care training and development team. You will work closely with the Principal Social Worker to ensure social care practice within the ASYE cohorts and Advanced Year are consistent across Children’s Services.
You will need to be a passionate practice leader for newly qualified social workers, responsible for modelling; best practice, mentoring, coaching, and supporting their development and growth. This will include embedding good practice and raising practice standards to improve the experience of these workers and help to retain them within the organisation.
We would like to hear from you if you:
Understand the training, development and practice needs of the newly qualified social workers and enabling their learning
Have a social work qualification and practice education award (minimum PEPS1 and willing to work towards PEPS2)
Have proven experience of supervising/supporting staff
Can demonstrate your ability to facilitate training.
More than 360,000 people call Ealing home. Our seven towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell Northolt, Perivale and Southall - are diverse, vibrant and lively communities where over 170 languages are spoken. We will enable you to do the work you care deeply about, and our aim is to deliver the infrastructure that allows that to happen.
Ealing is a great place to come and develop your career. You will be supported in this by colleagues and managers who will provide you with the opportunities to grow, gain experience, confidence and become a reflective practitioner.
Ealing is a richly diverse borough and we benefit from close ties to our communities which enriches our work and continually improves our offer. We are alive to the pressures many of our families are facing and work creatively with families and partners to bring about changes which makes the work that much more energising.
We recognise that to recruit and retain the very best social workers and social care practitioners, we need to bring together all our learning and development opportunities into one place. That’s why we have launched the Ealing Social Care Academy. The academy helps our team connect, collaborate, and engage creatively with internal and external partners and service users.
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More directly we can offer you:
Manageable caseloads
Clear career progression pathways
Opportunities to develop and experience different areas of work
Competitive remuneration packages
A hybrid approach to working that increases your work / life balance
If you want to find out about this opportunity, please contact our Recruitment lead, Caroline Horsley at: HorsleyC@ealing.gov.uk