Childrens Advanced Practitioner

**Family Safeguarding**

Become an Advanced Practitioner for Bury and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

**About the role**

We are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, and dedicated social worker who shares a passion in supporting the progression of others. The Advanced Practitioner role is ideal for a Social Worker looking to develop their skills and experience. You will receive support from a permanent Team Manager with regular supervision, numerous training opportunities and a commitment to your on-going professional development.
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children and young people? Do you want to work using strength-based models of social work practice and motivational interviewing? If so we have an exciting opportunity here at Bury for you to join our dedicated Family Safeguarding Team.

We are the first authority within the Greater Manchester area to implement and pioneer Herefordshire's Family Safeguarding model. This is a fantastic opportunity to change the way we work with children and families in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children of Bury.
Social Workers based within Care and Support Service, support children who are in our care working closely with carers and families. We have three Care and Support Service teams and work alongside our two leaving care teams ensuring a smooth transition for young people transitioning to adulthood. Social workers work closely with the personal advisors and our virtual school colleagues are based with us.

You will have the opportunity to build trusting relationships with children, young people, carers and families. We know this supports positive and effective engagement which achieves better outcomes for children and it ensures the plan is the right plan for children in our care maintaining a focus on permanence.
To help us achieve our ambitions for children and families we are looking for dedicated, and compassionate practitioners who are child focused and committed to relationship-based social work to join us. You will be a qualified social worker, registered with SW England and have access to a car to enable you to visit and support our children and young people.

We strive to provide a supportive and dynamic work environment for our employees with a strong focus on support, training and development, and health and wellbeing.

**About Bury**

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

**Benefits of working for Bury Council**

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
- Re-imbursement of the annual £90 Social Work England registration fees (conditions apply).
- Pay increases in line with your continued professional development.
- Free parking where you work - worth £860 a year for qualified Social Workers who work from town centre locations where there is no ready access to free parking, plus car mileage.
- Opportunities to develop new and specialist skills.
- Innovative training and development opportunities.
- Supportive integrated teams and a friendly working environment.
- Professional supervision to a high standard.

**Next steps**

Come and join Team Bury

**Please be aware that we are not carrying out international recruitment at present and are currently unable to support sponsorship visas.