Social Work Learning Lead

**Grade I scp 31 £39,186 to scp 35 £43,421**
**12 Month Fixed Term Contract**
**Role specifics Social Work Degree and Social Work England Registration
**Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible**

**The Role**

You will be part of the councils Principal Social Work team who provide and support a positive learning culture, and a professional development framework for Social Workers and social work learners in Bolton.

Our aim is to review and strengthen our existing support and development opportunities for Social Workers and provide a strong voice for the social work profession. The standards for employers of Social Workers in England provides us with our brief.

We want an enthusiastic motivated person to mentor a group of our learners across adult settings to reach their learning goals. The Learning Lead will help our learners build on their existing skills and knowledge and using a holistic assessment approach, enable them to reach their full potential.

This will include undertaking reflective individual and group supervision, organising and supporting review meetings, liaising with each learner’s line manager in terms of practice and development, undertaking direct observations and offering a range of workshops to equip the learner with a clear understanding of social work practice in Bolton.

**About You**

We are looking for an experienced Social Worker with at least 3-years post qualifying experience of working with adults with varying needs including mental health issues. You would ideally be a stage 2 qualified Practice Educator, or currently working towards stage 2, with experience of mentoring, supervision and working with learners supporting them to develop and grow.

You will have a knowledge of the assessment process for social work apprentices, students and NQSW’s as well as understanding about adult learning and barriers to learning.

You will have a strong understanding of what best practice looks like and be passionate about inspiring and improving adult’s lives, as well as the continuous professional development of social work practitioners.

Good people skills are a must with a creative and flexible approach to work and the drive and motivation to work with learners enabling them to develop and succeed. You will work both with individual learner’s offering reflective supervision and the group offering workshops and support sessions. You will be expected to respond to queries, dilemmas and concerns from both learners and managers and be able to challenge managers and other professionals when needed.

You will have knowledge and experience of Safeguarding and of legislation, regulations and guidance relating to adult social care together with an ability to assess and manage risk.

**About Us**

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

**Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits too.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.