Practice Supervisor- Northallerton

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Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

A welcome from the Corporate Director of Children and Young People. Thank you for your interest in joining our Children and Young People’s service. As the new Director for Children and Young People, here in North Yorkshire I am excited to announce significant investment in our children and families service. Be part of a service investing in family help and sustainable practice.

Across local government, children’s services are facing unprecedented demand and funding constraint. Many organisations are responding by reducing capacity and narrowing ambition. We have chosen a different path. In response to the Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we in NYC are seeking to expand our teams in order to drive the changes of supporting children and their families at the earliest opportunity, right time, right person.

We are making a significant and sustained investment in our workforce—creating new and additional capacity across children’s social care, which will become Family help and our Multi agency child protections teams. At a time when others are making savings, we are growing our teams because we believe that safe, effective and relationship based practice relies on practitioners having the time, support and professional space to do their best work, with children.

Here at North Yorkshire Council, we are extremely proud of the work our Children’s Services do, this has been recognised by Ofsted in our 2023 review, rating us as Outstanding across all areas. We are looking for enthusiastic, well‑motivated Practice Supervisors to join us where you will be working in a team that is constantly trying to improve outcomes for safeguarding children and supporting their families.

Requirements

We are seeking an experienced Practice Supervisor to support high‑quality social work practice across safeguarding, looked after children and fostering teams. You will provide day‑to‑day professional supervision, model reflective and evidence‑based practice, support complex decision‑making and help ensure children are safeguarded and achieve positive outcomes.

You will:

• Provide daily supervision to Social Workers
• Support risk management and decision‑making
• Mentor colleagues and help develop their practice
• Lead on quality assurance and performance monitoring
• Chair multi‑agency meetings and attend child protection conferences

You must be a qualified social worker with Social Work England registration. Before applying via this vacancy please review additional information about working for North Yorkshire Council, what staff say about working in North Yorkshire, our CPD offer and career opportunities.

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults or children at risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. North Yorkshire Council’s purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.