PRINCIPAL SOCIAL WORKER

EMERGENCY DUTY AND ASSESSMENT TEAM

£42,882 to £44,911 (plus 15% out of hours) plus £4,000 welcome bonus

About us : Emergency Duty Team

The Emergency Duty team runs an out-of-hours service, responding to statutory emergencies and other social work matters within the childcare and adult arenas.

The positions within the team are principal social worker roles. This is on a rota basis, and you will provide an emergency statutory social work duty service out-of-hours with minimal supervision. The ability to work autonomously is therefore paramount.

You will provide guidance and support to sessional and unqualified staff. You will take the lead in child protection investigations, adult safeguarding investigations and will undertake Mental Health Act assessments as Approved Mental Health Professionals, ensuring that services are delivered within the legislative and statutory planning frameworks, Government Guidance, the Trust's Core Values and Strategic Aims, and Service policies and procedures.

About the role

The role includes assessing the needs of children and their families against the Departments agreed threshold criteria and in accordance with National Guidance with set timescales, the creation and implementation of culturally appropriate care plans that demonstrate flexibility and innovative use of resources, and which will fulfil the statutory requirements of the Department until the next working day.

About You

You will have good communication within the Directorate, Local Authority and Partnerships, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and service user focus that delivers good outcomes for children and adults

In a rewarding, diverse but complex environment, the team deals with a range of cases from child protection to mental health assessments, and decisions that need to be made in the context of each individual case to achieve optimum outcomes. You will need to evidence having the AMHP award; warranting can be arranged for any candidate able to demonstrate statutory requirements for continued approval to practice as an AMHP.

You will be supported by an on-call Service Manager on each shift, and you will have regular formal and informal supervision by the team manager. The team hold monthly team meetings and have a team training profile that supports your professional development. The Northamptonshire Emergency Duty Team has received consistent positive comments in recent OFSTED Inspections, and we would welcome any worker who shares the team ethos to provide the right amount of help and support at the right time, to those most in need.

Northamptonshire's children's service delivers their service via a TRUST and the EDT is currently undergoing a review focussing on the delivery of adult services including the AMHP role. We can only accept applications from people who have flexibility in relation to working patterns as these may change within a re-structuring process. All statutory employment legislation would apply.

What We Offer

• Highly competitive salaries and benefits
• Welcome Bonus of £4,000
• Retention bonus payments for established personnel
• Annual SWE registration costs covered
• Free parking - Wellingborough site
• 27 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays, an additional 5 days after 5 years' service
• Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
• Subsidised local authority pension schem0065
• Free Car Parking
• Central location with good rail links to London, Luton, Bedford, Kettering, Corby, Leicester and Nottingham
• Good road links to all surrounding major towns
• Induction Programme
• Practice Educator Qualification
• Monthly high-quality supervision
• Mandatory Signs of Safety training
• Fantastic Maternity Benefits with an additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
• Employee discount scheme offering a range of discounts from travel to shopping
• Up to £8,000 relocation costs
• Regular engagement opportunities with CEO and leadership team