Children's Social Worker

Job Details

We have an exciting new opportunity for a social worker available with us in the Assessment and Staying Together team, in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Our Social Workers make a huge difference to the lives of people across our county, and we remain passionate about investing in retaining our own and developing practice and this an exciting opportunity which offers just that.

If you are looking for more responsibility, a supportive role with your colleagues whilst continuing to support and safeguard some of our most vulnerable/high risk children and young people, then this could be just for you.

We are looking for qualified social workers with post qualifying experience of working with vulnerable children and knowledge of safeguarding and children in care.

A career progression framework is in place to support you which also includes:

• Practice Educator Programme.
• Aspiring Senior Practice Lead and Aspiring Team Manager programmes.

We are ambitious in our learning and development programme with strong links within the West Midlands and our teaching partnership.

For more information on working in at Staffordshire and our social worker career pathway, please visit Children & Families - Careers at Staffordshire.

Main Responsibilities

You will:

• be working with families across the continuum of need from Child In Need through to the conclusion of Care Proceedings.
• Working within a District Model you will work closely with your colleagues in Early Help, Children in Care and Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities Team. In addition, to our colleagues in health and education.
• be responsible for completing the statutory duties in co ordinating the child’s plan, reviewing and ensuring that our children are seen and heard.
• Undertake section 47 investigations
• Undertake placement of children into Local Authority care, when it is agreed they can no longer remain at home
• Be responsible for the completion of both Private and Public law reports
• Be responsible for referring into our centralised services for specialist support/ services.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll:

• be a qualified Social Worker
• be registered with Social Work England.
• have a current UK driving licence and vehicle
• Ideally have completed their ASYE before starting this role

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.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact: Kayleigh Harold, Team Manager at [contact hidden].

Interviews will be held in May 2026.

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.