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At Change Grow Live, our commitment to making a difference in the lives of our Service Users is unwavering. We provide support, respect, and a safe environment, tailoring our approach to each individual's needs to find the best treatment and support options.
Our core values 'Be open, be compassionate and be bold' guide us daily, striving to empower individuals to reshape their lives, foster personal growth, and embrace life to its fullest.
As a Social Worker with Change Grow Live Knowsley you will role model and lead ethical and evidence-based practice, focusing on the experience of people who use our service. You will work alongside other members of the leadership team providing advice and consultation of risk, safeguarding and complex need. You will bring forward social justice and professional accountability to decision making and work collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary team and external partners to ensure safe and effective practice.
Knowsley offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment with competitive salaries, generous annual leave, and numerous career progression opportunities, making it an ideal place to thrive both professionally and personally
Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £36,635.37 - £43,814.50 dependent on experience (based on full time working hours, pro rata if part time)
Responsibilities
About the role:
The role will encompass a shared responsibility for Designated Safeguarding Lead within the service where the candidate will be responsible for providing advice and consultation on risk, safeguarding and complex need. The role will support the wider service in enhancing its response to safeguarding and complex need, ensuring balanced and evidenced based decisions are made in the best interest of service users. The candidate will represent the service in wider partnership meetings such as Domestic Abuse Risk Management Meetings, MARAC, Strategy Discussions and Best Interest meetings. The role is managed by the Senior Social Worker and sits within the Family Project; the candidate will work alongside the Young Person’s Service to ensure collaborative approaches are embedded and offered to service users. The role will work alongside Recovery Coordinators and other specialists to develop meaningful and individual interventions to support recovery and reduce risk.About you:
Hold a valid qualification in Social Work and be registered with Social Work England Experience in leadership and the development of others using reflective practice Be confident in complex decision making and have excellent skills in communication and defensible decision makingExperience and knowledge of the working practice of safeguarding adults and children Excellent team working, collaboration and creative skills Be able to work flexibly across operational sites as required. There may be a need for evening and weekend work to ensure service provision is upheld.What we will give you:
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays), rising annually for the first 5 yearsFlexible working arrangements Paid ‘wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme A great selection of benefits including discounts1 day of Continued Professional Development each month Training and development opportunities A friendly and supportive teamGenerous refer a friend schemePlease ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.
If this exciting opportunity sparks your interest and you want to know more, we would love to hear from you.
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Salary Range (pro rata if part time) CGL points 33 to 40 (£36,635.37 - £43,814.50) ILW / OLW /Fringe N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Closing Date 30/9/2024 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Lisa Mawdsley | lisa.mawdsley@cgl.org.uk This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Options ApplyApplyShareEmail this job to a friendRefer <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> </span></p> Share this vacancy on your newsfeed
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
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