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We currently have a vacancy in our Assessment and Staying Together Team, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire. We are looking for social workers to assess our most vulnerable children and manage their plan to help them achieve their outcomes to ensure they are happy and safe, we welcome experienced or newly qualified social workers to apply.

For newly qualified social workers our ASYE programme has a great reputation because we’re committed to giving you the best start in your social work career by helping you develop your practice in a supported way!

Our ASYE programme – what you can expect

Staffordshire has a well-established ASYE programme that prides itself on providing our newly qualified social workers with strong support and opportunities to develop. We recognise that your first year of social work practice is about developing your confidence, skills, and knowledge. That’s why we offer monthly bespoke ASYE training sessions, with well-established social work educators.

You’ll have a protected workload, and individual ASYE assessors who will regularly meet with you and your manager to review your support and development needs. You’ll also have protected study leave to develop your practice portfolio and opportunities to attend a range of training that will develop your social work practice knowledge.

Feedback from social workers who have completed our ASYE programme tell us:

• ‘I appreciated the protected workload, and individual support’.
• ‘There was recognition that I was learning whilst practising’.
• ‘I felt Staffordshire recognised that I needed time to develop and consolidate my social work style and practice.’
• ‘There’s lots of training and support from individual teams and managers.’

As a Social Worker you will:

• Assess the needs of children and young people who require social work services including the identification of risk and the need for protection.
• Develop, co-ordinate and deliver multi-agency plans to meet assessed needs and to review these plans to ensure they continue to meet assessed needs.
• Identify gaps in service provision to inform resource allocation and service development.
• Engage other professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies in the delivery of services agreed following the assessment of need
• Complete assessment that inform decision making
• Maintain accurate and up to date records on the electronic management system at all times
• Prepare for and participate in professional supervision sessions and staff meetings and make use of all available training and developmental opportunities

It's essential you:

• have a good understanding of the impact of childhood experiences and be supporting young people to overcome and manage a range of challenges, helping them rebuild their family relationships.
• be passionate about supporting families to be able to safely care for their children without our intervention.
• be committed to developing young peoples key life skills through pathway planning, working in partnership with families and supporting them to build positive strong relationships and networks around them.

For newly qualified social workers to join our ASYE programme you’ll need to be:

• Expecting to become a Qualified Social Worker within the next 9 months
• Be registered with or on track to become registered with Social Work England (SWE) in the next 9 months
• Have a current UK driving licence and access to use a vehicle

Please note if you do join us before you have qualified and received your Social Work England Registration, you will be paid £33,699 (SCP 22) until you qualify. At this point you will be transferred to £39,152.

But above all, you’ll bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it’s safe to do so.

Here at Staffordshire, we’re proud of each other, of the supportive team we’ve built and all that we’ve achieved together and we hope you’ll become part of our team.

Interview will take place the week commencing 17th August 2026

If you need more information on this post and our offer of support please do contact me via email: kayleigh.harold@staffordshire.gov.uk

For more information about Staffordshire Children’s Services visit our website Children and Families - Careers at Staffordshire

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes detailed below.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.