Social Worker – Children with a Disability Team

Company: Kirklees Council
Apply for the Social Worker – Children with a Disability Team
Location: Oldfield
Job Description:

  • A Restorative Practice approach to social work which involves innovation and locality working with high quality relationships at the heart of our approach.
  • You will work with manageable caseloads and we will ensure that you have high-quality professional development and receive high standards of induction, supervision and management.
  • Your emotional well being is very important to us and each area has an emotional well being champion ensuring we have emotionally resilient practitioners.
  • We have a bespoke learning and development offer at all levels of social work allowing you access to professional development opportunities enabling you to develop and progress your career. Our well-established career structure also supports us to develop our own managers and leaders.
  • We are currently recruiting social workers to join our Children with a Disability Team which is part of the wider Assessment & Intervention Service.

We are looking for experienced or newly qualified practitioners who are able to demonstrate that they:

  • Have a commitment to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare
  • Have experience in a social care setting with ability to assess needs, identify appropriate social work interventions, plan, prioritise and evaluate
  • Have communication and collaboration skills to build productive working relationships in a multi-agency environment
  • Have the ability to engage individuals, families and carers and use their views to inform assessments, plans and interventions
  • Have up-to-date knowledge of relevant trends, policies, regulation and safeguarding
  • proactively use supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches and understand the boundaries of professional accountability
  • Can co-work and mentor less experienced practitioners
  • Are willing to work towards Practice Educator Level 1 or 2 or already have a Practice Educator qualification.
  • We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made – please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
  • Organisation Kirklees Directorate Children & Families Service Area Family help, Permanence & Safeguarding Hours 37 Number of Jobs 1 Location(s) Across Kirklees Position type Permanent Grade Grade 9-11 Salary £34,434 – £44,075 Enhancements / additional payments details Market Rate Supplement of £1500 will apply to Level 3 Social Worker which is reviewed annually Advert Wording We’re Kirklees – Come and Join our team Are you a committed and enthusiastic social worker? Are you looking for a new opportunity in an innovative and supportive environment?

#J-18808-Ljbffr…

Posted: October 15th, 2026