Advanced Children's Social Worker


Company:	Staffordshire County Council
Salary:	£46,579 to £50,908 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Cannock - Springvale Area Office, WS11 0DY
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	18 Sept 2026
Closing date:	29 Sept 2026

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Summary

With our new operating model, we’re making sure our social workers can do what they do best!

We have an opportunity for an experienced Social worker to join our assessment and staying together team on a full-time basis but we're also happy to discuss part time as well, just get in touch.

You would be supporting vulnerable children, and the families through child protection planning and care proceedings. Ensuring the needs of children are paramount and their voice is central to the work you do.

Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county. They take pride in supporting children and families and we’re equally proud to help them give their best in whatever ways we can. That’s why you can expect everything from agile and flexible working options to exceptional learning and development if you join our team. You can also expect our commitment to creating the best service we can.

Although we’re already rated as ‘Good’ by OFSTED, we’re determined to uphold the highest standards and drive continual improvement and learning. That’s why we’ve recently gone through an exciting transformation, underpinned by a restorative practice model, which focuses on keeping families together through a community-based approach. If you’ve not worked in this way before, don’t worry – we’ll give you full training to bring you up to speed.

This role is for 30 hours, based in Cannock

For information, please note that there is currently an ongoing review within Children and Families to realign individual teams and the wider team’s ways of working. As a result, this role may be affected by the review. For further information, please speak to the hiring manager.

Main Responsibilities

As an advanced practitioner within an assessment and staying together team, you will support children and families who are supported via

Child Protection planning,

Public Law Outline, and

care proceedings.

This will involve completing meaningful visits to children, and regular multiagency meetings to ensure plans are progressed in a child focussed and timely way.

You will be expected to complete child focussed assessments and documents for reviews meetings and court. Therefore, being confident in both public and private proceedings is key to this role.

The Ideal Candidate

The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:

Experienced Qualified Social Worker having completed your ASYE year

Registered with Social Work England

Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle

Have a firm understanding of public and private family law proceedings

Be passionate about child centred practice

But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.

Interviews will take place on 7th October 2026.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Rebecca Williamson, Team Manager at: rebecca.williamson@Staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

Please note: The minimum criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to

Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a

Disability Confident employer, a

Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting

care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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