Children's Newly Qualified Social Workers

The starting salary for this role is currently £35,401* per annum based on a 36-hour working week. A further financial package of £6,000 also available on completion of ASYE.

We are currently welcoming Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) to join us as we start to build our NQSW cohort for 2024.

Surrey is a large and vibrant county that borders with Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west.

We have opportunities to join a range of teams which are located across the county:

• Based in Weybridge in Northeast Surrey we have our North Adolescent Hub, Assessment, Children Looked After and Leaving Care, Family Safeguarding or Intensive Family Support teams to choose from.
• Based in Reigate in Southeast Surrey, we have our East Adolescent Hub, Assessment, Children Looked After and Leaving Care, Family Safeguarding, Intensive Family Support or Fostering Teams to choose from.
• Based in Guildford in Southwest Surrey, we have our Assessment, Children Looked After and Leaving Care, Family Safeguarding or Intensive Family Support teams to choose from.
• Based in Woking in Northwest Surrey, we have our West Adolescent Hub, Assessment, Children Looked After and Leaving Care, Family Safeguarding, Intensive Family Support or Children With Disabilities teams to choose from. Our Adolescent Hub and Children With Disabilities teams also work across the South West area of Surrey.

We are currently remodelling our Adolescent Service, we will be able to provide further details about these teams and their locations upon request.

You will be required to travel to the office where your team is based to undertake work with children, young people and families, to attend meetings and training as required. When not working with our children and families in the community, we support agile working with a combination of home and office working. We are keen to get the balance right of providing flexibility whilst maximising learning opportunities for you and responding to service needs.

NQSWs will have access to:

• A comprehensive ASYE Academy Induction programme and Team Induction.
• Allocated Advanced Social Worker as ASYE Assessor, in addition to the operational Team Manager.
• Graduated Supervision offer with increased support in the first six months.
• Graduated workload reaching a 90% allocation by the end of programme.
• Monthly one-to-one or group reflective supervision with ASYE Assessor.
• Our Children's Quality Practice and Performance Service to develop skills in social work practice.
• Monthly ASYE Learning Events focusing on Post Qualifying Standards (KSS).
• Two days a month Protected Development Time.
• Community Care inform, Research in Practice, and Care Knowledge learning platforms.
• Surrey Safeguarding Children's Partnership training programme.
• A secure SharePoint hub for collaborative working and access to up-to-date resources.
• 28?days annual leave, rising to 30?days after 5?years' service (plus bank holidays)
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependant's leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• We pay your Social Work England registration fee for any registration period when you are employed with us.

Our Surrey Children's Services Academy ASYE programme for Newly Qualified Social Workers is a 12-month programme designed for you to embed learning from your studies and placements and to develop your professional skills and confidence for a career in frontline social work.

The programme is well resourced and supported by a capable team of experienced social work staff and managers. You can expect regular reflective supervision from your Team manager and ASYE Assessor who will guide and support you to develop your knowledge base across various functional areas of practice.

In September 2023 Skills for Care, in their quality assurance report reflected that: "NQSWs at Surrey are active participants, throughout the life of the programme. From the moment of onboarding, the wellbeing of NQSWs is prioritised". We are rightly proud of the feedback from Skills for Care and equally keen to support the 2024 cohort of NQSWs in the same way.

Upon successful completion of your ASYE there will be an opportunity to progress your career with Surrey and tap into our Post-Qualifying Year 2 programme.

For shortlsiting your application will clearly evidence the following:

• You hold a Social Work qualification such as a Degree, Masters or Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (or will be about to obtain any of these)
• You are (or will be) registering with Social Work England and have permission to work in the UK following your studies
• Your experience of working with children, young people and their families, e.g. voluntary work / transferable work experience skills / social work placements etc
• That you qualified within two years of the NQSW cohort commencing in October 2024 (If you qualified earlier than?October 2022?your application will not be considered)

The job advert closes at 23:59 on the 29th of May 2024 with shortlisting planned for W/C the 3rd of June 2024.

Face to face interviews are planned for W/C the 17th of June and 24th June 2024.

We are committed to promoting supportive and inclusive recruitment. If your application is shortlisted, interview questions/ themes will be shared with you in advance, to help support with your preparations.

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application.
The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form.