Social Worker Support and Safeguarding North 5287843

 

Support and Safeguarding Social Worker Childrens Services

Chippenham, Wiltshire

Pay rate £34.92 Umbrella

 

Hoop Social Work Recruitment is delighted to be supporting Wiltshire Council in the recruitment of an experienced Social Worker to join their North Support and Safeguarding Service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a stable, well-resourced service that places equal value on children’s outcomes and practitioner wellbeing.

 

Location & Working Environment

The team is based at Monkton Park, Chippenham, offering an excellent working location with strong transport links:

-Easy access from the M4

-Free, priority parking available

-Access to a dedicated pool car to support efficient travel

-A hybrid working model, offering flexibility to work from home or across the county

 

About the Team

The North Support and Safeguarding Service works with children, young people, and their families from Early Help through to permanence, providing continuity and relationship-based practice.

The team benefits from:

-A permanent and experienced management structure

-A Team Manager supported by Assistant Team Managers, offering:

-Regular, high-quality monthly supervision

-A reflective, strengths-based and open supervisory approach

-A multi-disciplinary team, including Key Workers who co-work cases alongside the Social Worker

-Dedicated Practitioner Support, assisting with:

-Minute-taking for CIN and Core Group meetings

-Access to a wider wellbeing support service, including a newly introduced offer aimed at reducing secondary trauma

-Strong teaching partnerships with Bournemouth University, providing opportunities for: Teaching, Masterclasses, Continued professional development

 

About the Role

Wiltshire Council is ambitious for its children, families, and workforce and is committed to being a progressive, supportive, and learning organisation.

This role operates within a ‘One Journey’ model, enabling Social Workers to remain with a child from the front door through to permanence where required.

 

Why Join?

This is a service that genuinely invests in its people  offering stability, flexibility, meaningful support, and opportunities to grow.

To apply for this role, you will need to hold -

• A minimum of 6 months experience of working in the UK as a registered social worker
• A relevant Social Work Qualification
• Registration with Social Work England
• Enhanced DBS, registered on the update service or be happy to apply for a DBS
• 3 Years of referencing
• Driving license with access to a car
• Hold front line childrens safeguarding experience
• Lead on Child in Need and Child Protection plans
• Contribute to legal processes when required to secure permanence
• Benefit from a protected caseload, supported by a case-weighting tool
• Work flexibly within the council’s hybrid working model

Benefits of working for Hoop:

• 20 years’ experience of the Social Work market
• Your local agency based in Cardiff
• Welsh-speaking consultant available should you wish to converse in Welsh throughout your job search
• PAYE and Umbrella payroll options available – you choose!
• Dedicated point of contact (support team to cover whilst on leave)
• Twice weekly payroll
• Actively supplying every Local Authority in South/West Wales and South West England
• Refer a friend scheme available
• Birthday gifts 
• Wellbeing sessions

Given the nature of the role, only applications from individuals with a social work qualification and registration with either professional body - Social Care Wales / Social Work England can be considered. No sponsorship provided. Please only apply if you meet this criteria.

For a confidential conversation about this role, please contact Sarah Leigh at Hoop Social Work Recruitment.