Frontline Consultant Social Worker

Job Title: Frontline Consultant Social Worker
Salary: £40,221 - £43,421 per annum, plus £2,000 market forces
37 Hours per Week
Location: County Hall, Worcester
Both Permanent & Temporary applications considered
What is Frontline:
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 delivered in collaboration with the University of Lancaster.
The Consultant Social Worker (CSW) role is pivotal to the participants’ first year on the programme and is a unique opportunity for social workers to step up into a management position whilst-continuing to develop their practice skills.
What does the Consultant Social Worker do:
Have management responsibility for the hub, with management and day to day responsibility of the students in the local authority.
Lead the weekly hub meetings which: incorporate systemic thinking about families, encourage the students to hold multiple hypotheses, and encourage peer challenge and critical reflection in decision making.
Hold regular one-to-one supervision with students, encouraging reflexive practice and self-awareness.
Where performance issues arise, you will address these in a professional way, holding high standards whilst supporting the student to resolve issues.
Manage the workflow and allocation of work with children and families coming into the hub.
In conjunction with Frontline, organise the logistics and planning required for the student hub to operate smoothly.
Ensure all elements of the practice assessments are completed in a timely fashion and regular deadlines are met by students throughout the year.
Create valuable learning opportunities for students by identifying appropriate children and families for the unit to work with throughout the year.
Provide ongoing support and guidance to students for the children and families they work with.
Use your judgement to expose students to increasingly complex and varied casework at the appropriate level whilst increasing their autonomy as they demonstrate progress.
Support the students to apply the practice models they have learnt in discussions and work with children and families.
Regularly observe the students in their direct work with families, giving developmental feedback.
Track and report on each student’s progress through the programme.
Be the named case holder of all children and families assigned to the hub and responsible for ensuring statutory requirements of the hub’s cases are complied with and hold responsibility for decisions in case work.
To be eligible for the Consultant Social Worker role you need to:
Be a SWE registered social worker (permanent),
Have experience working in child protection social work, and
Have at least two years of social work experience after qualification.
If you'd like more information about the CSW role, or the CSW training programme, visit their website here: Consultant social workers – Frontline (thefrontline.org.uk)
If you have any questions about the role, contact Frontline at:#####
To learn more about Worcestershire Children First, visit our website here: Worcestershire Children First | Worcestershire County Council
Disclosure Barring Service (DBS)
This post is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of criminal records via the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.
This will include details of cautions, reprimands, or final warnings, as well as convictions.The County Council has a commitment to safeguarding service users in our care.
How to apply:
Complete an application form; follow this link: thefrontline.tfaforms.net/4767892
Following application, a panel 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.
Recruitment goes directly to Frontline, but the decision making on appointment is joint between Frontline and Worcestershire Children First.
If successful, you will be asked to attend an interview, that includes a role play.
Application Closing Date: Sunday, 5th May 2024
Anticipated Interview Date: To be Confirmed
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