Social Worker Emotional Health & Well-being (Children Looked After & Care Leavers)

Become a Children’s Social Worker for Bury and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

About the role

We know that cared experienced children and care leavers often face unique challenges around emotional health and well-being. To strengthen the support we provide, Bury Council has invested in a new and innovative approach, creating an emotional health and wellbeing (EHW) team. This is an exciting time to join our team as you will contribute to refining and developing our clinical offer to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of our young people and the adults who care for them.

This team is psychologist led and comprises mental health practitioners and therapeutic social workers. The EHW team supports our cared for children team, fostering service and care leaver service, ensuring that emotional health is at the heart of care planning. This service forms part of our commitment to delivering trauma-informed, relationship-based practice that helps young people build resilience and thrive.

As a social worker within the EHW team you will have access to expert guidance, reflective practice, and specialist training to enhance your skills and confidence in supporting children and young people. This will support you to deliver consultations for our young people and the network of adults around them, interventions to young people regarding their emotional health and wellbeing, supporting and upskilling the adults who care for our young people, and delivering training and supervision to our colleagues to ensure that we deliver timely, coordinated support tailored to the needs of our care experienced population.

We are looking for colleagues that are passionate about improving outcomes for cared for children and young people. You will have a minimum of two years post qualification experience and knowledge/experience in applying trauma informed practice to your work.

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.

Benefits of Working for Bury Council

We value our employees and support agile working where appropriate for the role and service requirements. Bury is committed to being an equal society that recognises, values, and embraces all people for the skills, abilities, and experiences they bring to our workforce and community.

We guarantee an interview for:

Disabled people
Looked-after children and care leavers
Armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans)
Carers of adults or disabled children
provided you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Come and join Team Bury!

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rob Neild, Head of Service, via email at R.neild@bury.gov.uk.

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