Family Court Adviser / Social Worker / Care

Family Court Adviser / Social Worker / Care
Staffordshire
£37,213 - £41,496

Our client is keen to hear from individuals interested in becoming a Family Court Advisor - which is what they call their Social Workers – in the Staffordshire area.

While our client isn’t currently recruiting for any specific vacancies, they are keen to start talking to people who might like to join them in the short to medium-term. Therefore, when they do have vacancies, this may allow them to recruit more quickly from a pool of people they know are interested in joining them and that already know meet their requirements.

Our client knows why you became a Social Worker. To make a difference. They know you want to spend time on the parts of your work that really enable that to happen.  They also understands you want support to continue your professional development while having a healthy work life balance.

This understanding has helped our client build working practices that made them a recent winner of multiple awards like Social Work Employer of the Year as well as multiple other awards around flexible working and health and wellbeing. And then most recently, they are immensely proud to be inspected by OFSTED and rated 'outstanding'.

Family Court Advisers advise the Family Court as children and families go through significant events including care proceedings, adoption and parental separation. Should you join our client you’ll use your social work skills and experience to understand what the child needs, wants and feels.

Then you will advise the Family Courts on the best course of action for the child. You’ll do this by providing confident, powerful and succinct written case analysis and make recommendations to the court.  You’ll also attend court and be an advocate for the best interests of the child, ensuring their voice is not lost.

As you can imagine our client’s work is demanding. So, to be considered for such a privileged, responsible role of being the voice of some of the most vulnerable children in England, there are a few things they're looking for from you.

You must be a qualified Social Worker, registered with the HCPC as a Social Worker in England, with experience of working with highly vulnerable children and families and it is essential that you are an expert in safeguarding, child engagement, inter-agency working, case analysis, planning and recording.

We also think for you to succeed and truly make a difference you should be someone who is resilient and organised, can work proportionately, has strong, intuitive IT skills and must be an effective verbal and written communicator.

Now we've told you about the role we hope you're ready to complete the short application process, including providing us with your current CV. Before you do, let us outline some of the benefits you'll be eligible for should you join our client; competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme and the potential to bring your continuous service with you providing enhanced benefits. You will also receive Health & Wellbeing support including Healthcare Scheme Membership, payment of HCPC fees, Childcare Vouchers and they operate a Cycle to Work Scheme.

We hope you’ve decided this is a role you would like, if so click please complete our client’s short application process to let us know of your interest in joining them in the future.

Once our client has received your details, they will be shared with the relevant local Service Manager for them to review. If your application demonstrates you meet the key criteria then our client will look to arrange an initial telephone interview.

The intention is to take candidates as far through the recruitment process as both they want to and merit, with the aim being that candidates that go all the way through and are successful could be automatically considered for roles that come up within the next 6 months without any further assessment being required.