ID: 1586 Job Title – Therapeutic Social Worker
Service: PSA Service
Salary:
- starting at £28,598 FTE pro-rata per annum, rising to £31,384 (£11,593.78 – 12,723.24 per annum for part time, 15 hours per week)
Location: Fosse Neighbourhood Centre, Mantle Road, Leicester LE3 5HG (current location but due to relocate)
We offer hybrid working, the post holder will be expected to work flexibly within the community and office base.
Hours: Part-time (15 hours per week)
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Fixed term until 31 March 2027.
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
Family Action’s Post Sexual Abuse (PSA) service is a long standing, well respected service delivering therapeutic support to children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse, and their parents/carers. Our aim is to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people, and bring about greater stability in their lives. Family Action wishes to recruit a part-time social worker to the PSA Service, this post is fixed term until 31 March 2027.
Main Responsibilities:
• The successful candidate will hold and work a small, time-limited caseload, providing tailored, systemic therapeutic support to children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse. This will involve offering a range of interventions including psycho-educative work with families about the effects of trauma, and support to reduce or better manage traumatic symptoms. Partnership working with a range of external professionals is a key part of the support offered.
• You will have a recognised professional qualification in social work, and current Social Work England registration. You will have extensive knowledge and understanding of the needs of children and young people who are experiencing emotional trauma. You will have at least one years’ experience of having worked as a social worker with children and young people, preferably with experience of working therapeutically. You must also have access to a vehicle for business purposes and be able to travel frequently, sometimes at short notice, across the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland area.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• A recognised professional qualification in social work and a current registration with Social Work England, combined with evidence of a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
• A sound theoretical understanding of the impact of child sexual abuse; trauma; child development; attachment and resilience. Extensive knowledge and understanding of, and insight into, the needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma.
• An understanding and awareness of a range of interventions and models of working with children and young people and their parents and carers that social workers can use to respond to individual needs and circumstances including individual and group work programmes.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – this post requires a DBS Enhanced Childrens’ DBS Level check
• Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays - pro rata for part time workers
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: 26 October at 23:59
Interviews are scheduled to take place on 18 November, these will take place virtually.
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: jill.paddison@family-action.org.uk
All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
