Designated Social Care Officer
2 days ago
**Contract Type**: Permanent
**Salary**:Grade J. Scale 40 - £49,764 to Scale 43 - £52,805 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £50,788**
**Hours Per Week**: 36
**Base Location**: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 6BH
**Interview Date**: Thursday, 6th March 2025
**The role**
Tameside Children’s Services are looking for a committed and motivated social care professional to join our team. Designated Social Care Officer will act as the Council’s Lead Social Care Professional for children with special educational needs and disabilities and be vital to delivering our ambitious improvement agenda.
In this role you will be responsible for managing and developing approaches to ensure high quality social care input, driving change across the workforce and overseeing all social care referrals from the SEN team.
You will have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills, gain experience, and to progress your career with us in Children’s Services.
**About you**
You will have substantial experience of delivering a specialist service within a large organisation and expert technical /professional knowledge and experience.
**Why work for us?**
You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.
In Tameside we like to look after our employees and also offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:
- A minimum of 28 days leave per year based on service with the option to buy additional leave
- 36 hours working week
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing Support
- Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
**Reference Number: DPT602
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