Consultant Social Worker

Location: Symes House Peterson Square Hartcliffe Bristol BS13 0EE

Contractual hours: 18.5 hour

Part Time (2.5 or 3 days), Fixed Term until 31.3.25

You must be a registered Social Work to apply for this role.

Are you a social work manager or an experienced social worker with good supervisory skills looking for a management position in a very busy social work office in South Bristol? If you have good management skills and a proven ability in Child Protection and Court Work, we would like to hear from you.

You will join an area service where people are friendly and helpful. In this job-share role you would lead, manage, support, and supervise one of the ten small teams based together at Symes House in the south of Bristol. The management team is strong and supportive, with good supervision and peer support.

Each one of the small teams is made up of a Team Manager, three full-time Social Workers, a full-time Family Support Worker, and a full-time administrator. You will manage the five colleagues in the small team and lead the practice. The service works with children in need, children on a child protection plan, family re-unification, and undertakes court work.

The Signs of Safety model is used, and a high priority is placed on working collaboratively with families and professionals to create change for children. Bristol is working hard to embed systemic social work principles in our practice. Our priority is to work with families to keep children living safely within their families.

There are very effective partnerships and relationships with the Family in Focus service, and other agencies, located in South Bristol. A range of good quality training and opportunities for development are available in Bristol.

How do I apply?

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

It is Bristol City Council’s practice to request references for candidates that have been offered a job. However, if you are applying for a job that requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check then we will request your references once you have been invited to an interview.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.