Kinship and Fostering Asye

Summary

**Not completed your degree yet? You can still apply**

**LIVE** WORK **ENGAGE**

Our service provides a high quality, efficient and effective social work service which responds to the needs of children, young people and their families.

**How do we support you?**

You will work with a dedicated supervisor. That support includes twice monthly supervision as well as informal support and ongoing guidance for practice. You will receive ongoing training and development which is designed by our designated ASYE Co-ordinator. And your year will finish with a group celebration.

**Why come to Wiltshire?**

In addition to our ASYE support programme, we provide a range of learning and development opportunities - not just at the start of your career but across the professional capabilities’ framework. Grounded in relationship-based practice, opportunities are varied and ongoing such as a newly developed innovative fund for developing practice by shadowing in organisations.

In addition, you will receive:

- A laptop so you can work flexibly from any location enabling you to be more effective and flexible in your practice.
- The opportunity to work for a forward-thinking council with a strong focus on staff engagement.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service, as well as the option to purchase an additional ten days.
- Established and supportive teams who will provide monthly reflective supervision and management feedback in a culture of learning and development.
- An attractive rewards package with an excellent range of discounted products and services with national and local retailers via our Wiltshire Rewards scheme
- Through our teaching partnership with Bournemouth University, you will have extra opportunity: post qualifications, to develop your research as well as lecturing opportunity.
- We are part of an innovative pilot project implementing a Contextual Safeguarding model in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire.
- We have recently been awarded a research-based project around tackling domestic abuse in Wiltshire.
- A variety of progression opportunities; including practice educator training, CMI accredited leadership programs and career paths into management.

About you

We want passionate, professional and committed social work graduates to support the children and young people of Wiltshire to reach their potential.

Applicants for this role must have a social work degree or be in their final year.

If successful in interview, we will offer you a post on successful completion of your degree and the opportunity in the interim to be a paid employee as an unqualified Key Worker full or part time ahead of your Social Work England registration.