Advanced Practitioner Children\'s Social Care in Rochdale

Responsibilities

We are currently looking for social workers who will enjoy the opportunity to support, supervise and mentor staff across our children\’s services, including various programmes such as ASYE and practice placements. Using your advanced practice skills, you will work directly to support families with complex needs and produce high quality reports and assessments for court, alongside other specialist assessments without having case holder responsibility for such cases. This position would lie within the Family Support and Protection team. You will also support and promote the development and maintaining of high standards of professional practice across your team and the wider service while being competent in leading on various evidence‑based specialist assessments across the service.

Here at Rochdale Borough Council, we are committed to supporting our children and young people to live in a borough where they can grow, get on and live well. Our dedicated teams ensure they feel safe, healthy, successful and heard too, and we are incredibly proud, passionate and pioneering in the way our services are delivered. Everyone here plays a valued role in achieving this as we work closely with residents to deliver real positive progress and support them to achieve the best possible outcomes as part of our Raising Rochdale ethos. We always have lots of great things happening in our borough and we never stand still so this is a great time to join our team and succeed at Rochdale. We offer lots of training and supervision alongside help and guidance to build positive relationships with our children, young people and their families.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary with an opportunity to earn up to £1,000 extra, every year (£500 retention payment every six months)
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Excellent continuous professional development opportunities
• Exciting career progression pathway
• An attractive pension
• Staff recognition awards and celebration events
• Visible and supportive leadership
• Mileage payment and town centre parking scheme
• Up to 34 days annual leave with an option to buy more
• Paid for Social Work England professional fees
• Staff discount at popular retail and leisure sites

Other benefits

• Work in a modern, award‑winning building
• Be conveniently located next to the Metrolink, bus exchange and a short walk from Rochdale train station
• You\’re also a 10‑minute drive from the M62 corridor

What our colleagues say

• We work in friendly, supportive, multidisciplinary teams
• There are lots of easy to access training opportunities to learn and aid career development
• We have lots of community resources available to support families
• We are based right in the town centre office, next to M&S and close to local services

We are making positive progress in terms of our ways to work with children, young people and families as work to deliver better outcomes for all. We are empathetic and listen to our families as we build on their strengths to work towards agreed goals. We look forward to hearing from you about which of our friendly teams that best fits your expertise come and join Team Rochdale.