Social Worker in the Leaving Care Team

Salary: £48 per hour

Job Title: Social Worker in the Leaving Care Team

These roles are paying up to £48p/h an hour, high pay rates meaning more disposable income at the end of a hard working week.

Nonstop’s client is looking for a highly motivated agency social worker to join the Leaving Care Team. You will be one of 5 social workers, working alongside 5 personal advisors, a support worker and report to the Assistant Team Manager and Team Manager.

This exciting opportunity invites you to work with Care Experienced children and young people 16 – 25 year olds, many of whom are subject to long term Care Orders.

This is an exciting time to join the Leaving Care Team at this local authority as they are expanding in response to capacity, they have many new pilot projects for Care Leavers being initiated which you can become involved with and you will be joining a very welcoming, supportive and dedicated team of staff, many of whom are long standing team members. You will receive an `open door` policy of support from the team manager and assistant team manager and Agile working arrangements where you will be asked to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week and the rest of time working from home.

The Service is open to alternative work patterns such as condensed working and part time working hours subject to service needs/ current work patterns of the wider team.

Accommodation Allowance of £100 per week will be applicable for agency workers who live / are based more than 30 miles from Wrexham.

Agency worker induction programme to ensure proper introduction to the council, the service itself and the role. Including completion of key mandatory e-learning e.g. H&S, social care complaints, data protection & FOI and introduction to our social care systems / recording.

Access to development as required to undertake agency placements e.g., Lunch and learn sessions with Social Care colleagues, in addition to mandatory training as part of the departments improvement journey (i.e. mental capacity)

Offering a nurturing and supportive working environment where wellbeing is a high priority for its workforce. Agency workers who are treated as part of the Social Services team with access to supportive managers, peer colleagues and access to wellbeing services as provided through the Care First assistance programme.

You do not even need to have worked with Leaving Care before, experience within children would suffice. This is a great opportunity to move into Leaving Care Team if that is of interest.

Telephone interviews are taking place as and when candidates become available, do not delay and send across your CV today.

If you’re not interested at the moment perhaps you know someone who is? We offer a referral fee of £200 in high street vouchers; you could make a friend very happy and have some extra cash for yourself.

For a confidential discussion about this, or many other Social Work opportunities throughout the country, please ring for Jeremiah Ofori at NonStop Care.