Specialist Practitioner - Emergency Duty Team

It is an exciting time for Stoke-on-Trent's emergency duty team (EDT) which has progressed through transition to a children's only EDT

The team provides quality services to children and families outside of normal working hours as well as building and maintaining collaborative working with our partner agencies and colleagues across the directorate working around a 9 week rota.

The team is a vital part of Stoke on Trent children's services, where we provide support to the most vulnerable cohort of children and families and as such, we need practitioners who can work restoratively and work with families to help them to find their own solutions and provide safeguarding responses where required.

This is a unique opportunity for a practitioner with substantial post qualifying experience to join a new team and be a fundamental part of shaping our EDT and its future. We require practitioners who are enthusiastic, passionate, innovative and embrace change to join us on our change journey. Our vision is to make sure that we provide the right services to children and families at the right time, and we can achieve this by continuously striving for improvement and welcoming a learning and development culture, which you will be integral in achieving.

The Children's advice & duty service (ChAD) responds to concerns through conversations, which is an evidence-based approach we would want to develop further within EDT and adopt all of the positive learning we have gained from this journey and continue to develop on areas of improvement.

This is a real opportunity for you to develop in your role as a social worker and progress further with mentoring and coaching skills, whereby you will support our sessional workers and their own development and be involved in developing and implementing new processes.

We need experienced and resilient social workers to join the team, who can both work collaboratively with other services and take personal responsibility for their work and operate on their own initiative, who actively relishes taking on new challenges and broadening your skills.

To be considered for a position you must have a degree in Social Work or equivalent, be registered with Social Work England and be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post.,

• Be a qualified Social Worker


• You will have sound knowledge of relevant childcare legislation, including a clear understanding of 'Working Together to Safeguard Children'.


• An ability to build effective relationships with children, young people, and families.


• ability to work flexibly around work commitments
  
  Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.


Our city

Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery.

Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.

When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.

Our commitment to you

Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive.

Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need.

Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.