Welcome to Salford

This is a really exciting time to join Salford on our journey to outstanding. Our ambition is for all children and their families to benefit from high quality and purposeful relationships with professionals. We want to ensure we create an environment for our Social Workers to deliver the very best services; reduced caseloads and space to deliver interventions is key to outstanding service delivery and these are key priority areas for our Social Work teams.

Joining us now gives you an important role in developing and transforming our practice, strengthening our frontline social work services to deliver the best possible outcomes. Learn about our vision from Zoe Fearon, Assistant Director for Children’s Social Care (Adobe PDF format, 194kb).

Apply to join the team and make Salford your home to grow

Social Worker

You will work directly with children and their carers, effectively managing a caseload with varying degrees of complexity. You will use a range of knowledge, skills and interventions as required for each case. You will work in accordance with national and local policies and procedures, and use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions.

Read the role profile and apply now for one of our Social Worker roles.

Advanced Social Worker

You will effectively manage a limited caseload of complex cases in accordance with statutory responsibilities. You will be responsible for the supervision of qualified social work staff and trainees and contribute to the development of other staff including other social workers. You will effectively manage safeguarding risk including child protection, working within a multi-agency environment, providing a professional social work service. You will secure access to services, negotiating and challenging other professionals and organisations to provide the help required.

Read the role profile and apply now for one of our Advanced Social Worker roles.

EDT Practice Manager

You will need to demonstrate you have supervisory experience or evidence in supporting/mentoring staff. You will require extensive experience in working with children and adults as the service provides an effective out of hours safeguarding service. You should be able to demonstrate not only leadership and quality assurance but a range of performance management skills to meet the highest professional standards. You will have the ability to motivate and influence staff, leading a high performing team who produce good quality work, improving outcomes for children, young people, and adults. 

Read the role profile and apply now for our EDT Practice Manager role.

We are happy to answer further questions about any of our roles, please use the contacts provided for each vacancy if you would like to arrange an informal chat with a team member.

Why join Salford’s Children Services?

Our vision is to deliver a better and fairer Salford for all, and that includes our council staff - everyone at the council cares and everyone counts. We are determined to evolve and improve by listening to you. To ensure that we are delivering the best possible service to our families and community, we are now expanding our Children and Families team.

We offer a supportive and nurturing environment which enables individuals to grow as autonomous practitioners. We have adapted our ways of working through the use of technology and provide a blended approach to working with access to a range of office spaces across the city as well a home working. Together we will keep developing ways of working that support you in your role.

Salford has a commitment to the welfare of all staff members, and we offer a comprehensive package of well-being, resilience and support as well as promoting work life balance in all areas. Find out more about the great benefits package that you will access if you join us.

We want you to join us in our journey to expand, adapt and grow as we will fully support you to do the same within your chosen career. Here you will have access to continual professional development, to ensure and evidence registration.

Here are just some of the great development opportunities that you can expect if you join us:

• We offer a rolling programme of thematic lunch bowls, practice improvement workshops, legislative training, assessment, risk and analysis sessions as well as positively promoting individual development;
• We have signed up to ‘Research in Practice’, the materials of which are positively promoted across all service areas via learning circles, webinars and workshops;
• The Workforce Development Team facilitate Action Learning Sets across the service to enhance reflective practice;
• Salford Safeguarding Partnership offer a programme of training sessions and seminars on emerging themes within social work practice throughout the year, as well as multi- disciplinary training which offers an opportunity to develop relationships with our partner agencies across the city;
• The Work Force Development team has strong links with all local universities, which provides opportunities for our workforce to gain Practice Education Training, supporting students by facilitating practice-based lectures, taking part in assessment centres and interviewing social work students for a variety of programmes;
• We offer bespoke core skill training to our Newly Qualified Social Workers and aspiring managers;
• We support social workers undertaking Level one and two Practice Educator award;
• We provide opportunities to mentor Newly Qualified Social Workers;
• We have a commitment to supporting staff in achieving their social work accreditation (NAAS);
• We support our staff to develop their leadership skills with our #LeadingSalford programme.

Diversity and inclusion are important to us

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we also provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work. Find out more on our diversity and inclusion page.

Our City - Salford

Salford is a modern global city that boasts 249,000 people, 9,600 businesses, 37 square miles, 60% green space, fastest growing economy in GM, £5 billion GVA, UK’s hotspot for business start-ups, 7.5 million visitors a year, Britain’s largest inland waterway, one minute walk from Manchester city centre, northern home of the BBC and ITV, MediaCityUK, The Lowry, RHS Garden Bridgewater, one leading UK university, one outstanding NHS Trust, one airport.

Find out more about why it’s no Salfordinary city!