About the Team
Our Family and Adolescent Support Team (FAST) – East and North are looking to recruit two experienced and passionate Social Workers who are committed to improving outcomes for adolescents facing risks outside of their family homes, including exploitation, missing, peer and contextual harm.
This is an exciting time to join Warwickshire as we embed our Families First model across the county. FAST teams work on a locality basis within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency networks, supporting adolescents and their families through relationship-based, trauma-informed and contextual safeguarding practice.
You will work closely with partners across Health, Police, Education, Housing, Youth Justice and the voluntary sector, providing professional leadership in complex adolescent safeguarding and supporting high-quality practice within the team.
If you are motivated by contextual safeguarding, and passionate about supporting adolescents who are at risk of harm due to mental health challenges, homelessness or substance abuse, we would love to hear from you.
Our Offer to you includes:
- Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
- Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
- A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.
- We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply.
About the Role
We are recruiting for the role of two Experienced Social Workers, based in FAST East covering Rugby and FAST North covering Nuneaton, Bedworth and North Warwickshire on a permanent basis. We are looking for motivated, team players who are looking to further their social work career. This is a specialist role so it is essential that you are experienced in and passionate about the following areas of practice:
- Contextual Safeguarding: Focusing on adolescents at risk of serious youth violence, missing episodes, child exploitation, and peer harm.
- Multi‑agency Collaboration: Working closely with the police, health, education, and youth justice teams to strengthen safeguarding responses.
- Trauma‑Informed Practice: Using relationship‑based and restorative practice models to help stabilise families and divert youth away from the criminal justice system.
Qualifications: Requires a professional social work qualification (e.g., CQSW, DipSW, or degree in social work) and active registration with Social Work England.
Salary: Up to £47,575.00 per annum (Includes a £3,500 pro‑rated market supplement which is subject to pension, tax and NI deductions. Ts & Cs apply). Plus, relocation allowance up to £8,000 may be available if the relevant policy criteria are met. Ts & Cs apply.
Key Requirements
- Location will be based at the Nuneaton Justice Centre (North) or Rugby, Oakfield Centre (East).
- You will need to undertake vetting screening for the post based in the Nuneaton Justice Centre.
- Your working pattern will be 37 hours across the week.
- Occasionally we may ask that you work outside of these hours for example, in an emergency.
- We offer a mixture of office and home based working. The expectation is you are office based at least 3 times per week.
- For the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.
Benefits
Your future matters to us. We provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
Additional Information
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre‑engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
This role requires employees to undergo Non‑Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV). This process ensures that individuals who are not police staff but have physical or remote access to police premises, information, intelligence, financial, or operational assets are assessed for their reliability and integrity. This assessment determines their suitability for clearance to work within police premises.
To discuss the role please contact Tameika Plummer and Lianne Inskip at tameikaplummer@warwickshire.gov.uk or lianneinskip@warwickshire.gov.uk.
Closing Date: 23rd JulyInterview Date: 30th July
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.
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