MASH Social Worker /Senior Social Worker, Permanent in Cranham

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job located at Waterwells, Quedgeley.

We are currently recruiting for MASH Social Workers to join our Front Door team.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Salary between £39,152 - £47,181 per annum subject to experience
• £4000 welcome payment*
• £2,000 retention payment*
• Up to £8,000 relocation package**
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly policies and benefits
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• In-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

*Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions.

**Please note that our relocation policy is subject to terms and conditions.

Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support and management oversight available to staff within the Front Door / MASH. The MASH is a supportive team who welcome and fully induct new starters to ensure they are well equipped to start their successful career at GCC.

As a social worker within our MASH team, you will work to ensure we keep the children and young people at the heart of our assessments and decision making. You will work in partnership with other agencies to ensure families receive coordinated and appropriate support in relation to their assessed needs.

The ideal applicant will have had a good foundation of working as a frontline social worker. To be successful for the post we also need you to have:

• Social Work England registration
• Ideally experience within a MASH team
• A recognised qualification in Social Work
• Passed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) (if you qualified after 2012)
• DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)

For an informal chat about this role, please contact us. We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications. Interviews are due to take place in person on Monday 11th May.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council.

We welcome applications from newly qualified and social workers in the early years of their career. Depending on your qualification date and previous experience, you will be invited to either join our accredited ASYE programme or to complete an alternative early-career development in-house pathway.

We may be able to offer sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office guidance and subject to pre-employment checks. Applicants must already hold a valid right to work in the UK.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to us.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview.

This position is subject to a DBS check. Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them.