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Social Work Assistant

1 month ago

Newport, United Kingdom Newport City Council Full time

**Job information**

Post No. SS511.4 - Social Work Assistant

Social work assistant

Full Time 37 hours

Temporary - January 2025

Grade 5

Newport City Council Childrens Services are seeking to recruit a full time social work assistant to join our Safeguarding HUB until January 2025. (translate) This is an exciting time to join Newport City Council as we expand our children’s workforce to meet an increase in demand for our services.

We are a Safeguarding HUB Team dealing with complex safeguarding and welfare cases alongside Court work, from prebirth to 18 years old. You will be working alongside Social Workers assisting them in various finance and admin tasks, and family contacts, transporting children and helping with chronologies, completing proportionate assessments and other pieces of work. A full job description is attached with the essential requirements. Newport is a forward thinking fast paced place to work and this will be a role that will give experience of work within Children’s Services. You will need to be able to work in a team, with multiagency working key, often to short timescales, within confidentiality, and be able to build good working relationships with children, young people and their families.

Newport is a great place to live and work being a geographically small City with a diverse population of which 35,000 are children and young people. Newport is situated on the M4 corridor and is located between Bristol and Cardiff with excellent transport links further afield. The strengths of working and living in Newport are that it is a growing city that is developing at a fast rate whilst still providing opportunity to access affordable housing, good schools and excellent community resources. We are proud to have a stable workforce or dedicated staff of which all are permanent workers who experience a supportive and positive learning environment. Unique benefits are our effective Prevention and HUB services, the dedicated Mentoring and Consultation team, our partnership arrangement with Barnardo’s to deliver joint interventions to families as well as comparatively low, stable, caseloads, regular individual and group supervision and the opportunities for excellent career development and training opportunities.

In addition to generous annual leave, good pension scheme, comparative or higher pay than neighbouring authorities Newport City Council offers great benefits including:

- Vehicle allowances; Tax free bikes for work
- Working life balance - flexible employment.
- Career development
- Health and leisure (with discounts with various organisations to enable you to make choices about your health and lifestyle)
- Employee Support Service (Carefirst)
- Town centre offices with good transport links

You will require a DBS for this role.

Should you wish to discuss this role further please do not hesitate to contact Gemma Strong, Team Manager on 01633 656656.

Closing Date - 20 February 2024

**Our values - Courageous, Positive and Responsible**
**Ein gwerthoedd - Dewr, Cadarnhaol, Cyfrifol

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