Children's Social Worker - ASYE

N0109 Children's Social Worker Career Grade Progression Criteria Matrix.docx N0109C Children &©s Social Worker Level 1 JD FINAL.docx, If you are seeking a position as an ASYE and wish to embark on your social work career and development within children's social work. Why not join Leicester City Council?

With a dedicated learning and development team we have created a detailed ASYE pathway where you'll experience great learning opportunities. As part of our commitment to ensuring you achieve your full professional capabilities, you'll benefit from furthering your skills and knowledge through appropriate courses. As well as having the support of a skilled and experienced team manager to help shape and develop your practice. Joining an experienced and established team who will share their practice wisdom and experiences. We will ensure you are well supported and enable you to further your career within social work.

Leicester City's children services ensure children are always at the heart of our work. We are leaders Signs of Safety as a model of intervention to support sound Social Work practice and you will receive lots of support around this. To help deliver our vision we are looking for ASYE social worker to join various teams such as Looked after children and Children in need.

We offer agile and flexible working that supports a healthy work life balance. You'll have the ability to work outside normal office hours and visit locations across the city.

What you'll be doing

As an ASYE social worker you will have a protected caseload of 14 children and young people. You will be working to achieve good outcomes for children aged 0-18 years old.

In Looked after children you'll be supporting robust care planning and pathway planning and delivering on the statutory requirements for our looked after children. You will be supporting children and young people in foster care, residential care and supported living arrangements. We have a growing group of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people. Building strong relationships and enabling their voices to be heard will be key. You will be able to experience some court related work through our drive to reunify children and young people to parents care if this is safe and appropriate, as well as securing special guardianship orders if this is the right plan for the child or young person. The social work you will do is diverse and rewarding making a difference to the lives of our looked after children and young people. Join us and be part of our team.

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.

We give you the confidence to improve, and to stay

We know what we do is effective. We want stability, but we don't want complacency. We are always looking for new ways to improve and to innovate. Listening to our staff and implementing their ideas is one of the best ways we can do this. We want our staff to benefit from all that we offer. It's important to maintain their confidence in the practice the deliver and the outcomes they reach. We know they do better work when they have time to reflect on how good their work is. All of this means that people tend to stay with us longer than many other authorities. It's not because it's too cosy, or comfortable - it's because we do things well. For our residents, council taxpayers and employees. And by keeping people here longer, it's done even better.

At Leicester, we want to keep improving, and we want you to be part of it.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.