About Us
At Warwickshire County Council (WCC) we work with children and families restoratively, building strong relationships and connections to help families find long-lasting solutions. Our work contributes to our wider County Council aim – to make Warwickshire the best it can be for everyone. It’s a big responsibility that can be challenging at times, but this is what drives our staff to succeed, develop and achieve. If you’re someone who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage and purpose, then we want you to work with us.
Throughout 2020 we continued to look to the future and build on our programme of change and investment in the service…. Covid hasn’t stopped us!
It has helped us shape and develop a focus on wellbeing, utilising technology, opening opportunities for career development and renewed our focus on reflective and supportive leadership. These are the backbone to our offer to our workforce.
WCC invested in Microsoft technology in 2020 including the use of Surface Pros and MS365 suite which has enabled our workforce to seamlessly transition to community and homeworking. We have a whole council commitment to flexible working and employee wellbeing. We nurture, support and challenge each other to achieve the best outcomes for all our children.
WCC is an authority that engages with innovation. We are a financially secure local authority and want to achieve an outstanding service for children. To this end we have received £21m investment programme over four years to implement new and creative ways of working with children. This funding is from both the Council and Department for Education to strengthen relationship and evidenced based practice. We are introducing the Leeds Family Values model which includes increasing Family Group Conferences, providing more support for Special Guardians and a Caring Dads Programme. We are also implementing Multi-Disciplinary ways of working (which is focussed on embedding adult mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse services in our teams). We also have a new Children’s Workforce Academy to further support our staff and managers develop. All of our practice is underpinned by restorative and trauma informed practice.
We have excellent business support who minute multi agency meetings for social workers. We are also investing in technology such as automation to support practitioners to automatically upload documents to children’s electronic records.
We’re building something very special in Warwickshire. A community of practice – with diverse thought, skills and experiences.
The Role
The front door is often the beginning of the child’s journey, so it is important that together we get it right
Warwickshire are redesigning their MASH into an integrated front door, bringing together a range of partners and early help services to make sure that the children and families of Warwickshire receive the right support when they need it.
The Education Safeguarding Officer will be part of the new Safeguarding Hub within Warwickshire’s new Front Door, alongside the Triage and Early Help and Support Hubs. Working alongside partners from social care, police, and health you will be an important link to Warwickshire schools and early years settings. You will be someone who understands both schools and social care and who has experience in one or both of these settings. The post holder will be able to communicate and give advice confidently to headteachers, designated safeguarding leads and liaise closely with the Local Authority Designated Officer where appropriate.
If you want to be part of the development of our new front door and believe passionately in getting it right for children, then we want to hear from you.
Additional Information
This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
For more information please contact Claire Reynolds (Operations Manager of Warwickshire’s Integrated Front Door) on clairereynolds@warwickshire.gov.uk
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Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so.
If you are unable to apply via our website please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.
