Assessing Social Worker Kinship Assessments Team (Maternity Cover)

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker

Salary: 32070 - 42699 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) plus market premia

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term for (12 months )

Closing Date: 7th December 2025

Interview Date(s): 17th December 2025

About the Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a fixed term full time Assessing Social Worker to join our Kinship Assessment team for one year to cover Maternity leave this is a great opportunity to develop your skills in a new area and enrich your practice as a social worker through a different learning opportunity.

We are committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our children to have the opportunity to remain in the care of their birth family (where-ever safe to do so) through the completion of comprehensive and analytical Friends and Family assessments (both initial viability assessments and the full Form C Kinship/SGO assessments).

We are recruiting a social worker who has at least 2 years statutory social work experience including safeguarding direct work and the completion of high quality specialised fostering assessments. Our team are committed to creating a safe compassionate and reflective environment demonstrated through relationship based practice built on trust respect support and empathy. We achieve this through a spirit of curiosity by nurturing connections through relationships making a conscious effort to know and understand people and by providing hope for growth and recovery.

We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and their return we can offer flexible working supportive and approachable manager continued professional development as a great team who are welcoming and encouraging.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement.

• A Social Work degree or equivalent e.g. CQSW DipSW (with specialism in childrens services) and hold number of years recent post-qualification experience of working in a statutory setting including Safeguarding Court and Pre-proceeding work.
• A proven experience of coordinating multi-agency work to support children using formal outcome focused plans and experience of applying an evidence-based approach to practice such as the Signs of Safety approach.
• An in-depth knowledge and ability to apply relevant policies appropriate legislation government guidance and best practice in all aspects of social work including LSCB procedures with specific awareness of the Fostering Regulations and guidance.
• An awareness of the cultural racial linguistic and religious background of children young people and families and how to build effective responses into service delivery. You will need to comprehensively assess anticipate and support carers to manage risk developing child focused therapeutic parenting skills to achieve positive outcomes for children to remain within their birth family where-ever safe to do so.
• A proven ability to communicate (both verbally and written using Microsoft Office and database applications relevant to the department) thoughtfully confidently and with purpose across all levels of service users (including children young people parents/carers colleagues and other multi-agencies and professionals) sustaining engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities.
• Have comprehensive knowledge of the factors and influences which can impact on families and children achieving positive outcomes including child development attachment and neglect and parental factors such as substance misuse domestic abuse and mental health.
• Use your initiative be able to prioritise and offer flexibility to manage competing workloads and deadlines to ensure effective team working with an ability to travel to locations throughout the County (and where needed across the country) working outside of office hours when required

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Rebecca Allen -Team Manager

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus; communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

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