Social Worker - Children in Care Team

Social Worker - Children in Care Team

Location: Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley

Salary: £39,152 - £46,142 per annum

Reference: DUDLEY/TP/697/4823

We are looking for two experienced social workers to come and join our Children in Care Team here in Dudley. These vacancies have become available due to positive career progression within the service and are a rare opportunity! If you are looking for the challenge of being a corporate parent to young people in care and are driven to achieve the best outcomes then this is the job for you. You will be a practitioner with a big heart, who role models' relational and restorative practice with children at the heart of everything you do to help achieve amazing outcomes for all our children and young people in care through building positive relationships and connections with our children, young people and their families.

The Children in Care Team in Dudley is a stable service, who support all children with permanency plans following proceedings, inclusive of adoption, long term fostering, residential care, connected family placements, progressing SGO and reunification. We work closely with our care experienced personal advisors jointly to secure positive and ambitious transitional plans for our young people reaching 18.

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: - Grade 9 or 10 - grade and salary subject to experience

• Manageable case loads
• A comprehensive learning and development package
• High quality professional supervision
• Supportive and collaborative team working
• Excellent progression opportunities
• A significantly streamlined IT system allowing more time away from admin and more time to work with children and their families

We require social workers with 1yrs post qualifying only. Candidates who have not completed their ASYE programme will not be considered for this vacancy.

For more information regarding Children in Care please contact Amy Baker on or email

So that we can demonstrate Dudley's commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates.Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application.

All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.

Please note: Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK.

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