Blackpool Council Jobs Ad

Employer: Blackpool Council

Location: Progress House

Salary: £39,855 - £44,309

Salary Grade: H4

Working Pattern: Full Time

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: 12/10/2012 17:00

Job Type: Social Work/Social Care/Family Work

Blackpool Adult Social Services are creating exciting opportunities for three Social Work Professional Leads who will act as professional advisors to Team Managers, Senior Practitioners and Social Workers across all the areas of adult social care provided by the Council.

The post holders will:

·        Embed high quality practice standards into front line service delivery in the areas of mental health, generic adult social care and learning disability services to promote and develop evidence-based and outcome-focussed practice

• Support the Principal Social Worker and the Head of Service in developing and enhancing social work practice standards in accordance with the HCPC requirements
• Support the supervision and practice development of social work professionals within Adult Social Care - including newly qualified staff - in line with the Professional Capabilities Framework

·        Be willing to undertake other additional training to support the work of the service and their own Continuing Professional Development

·        Support the quality and service delivery of safeguarding adults practice and carry out quality audits of a range of social work recording and activity

·        Embed learning from complaints and serious case reviews into practice to improve outcomes for individuals, their carers and their families.

For further details regarding the post, please contact Lynn Gornall on 01253 476580

Blackpool Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory references, CRB and medical clearances, evidence of essential qualifications and proof of legal working in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

Blackpool Council welcomes applications from all the community. 

£133.000 with no guarantees that out children will be safe.  Just remember what it cost for one council to sack Sharon Shoesmith, and Blackpool does not have the financial clout of Islington!

Is this really cost effective?  
Will it get the results it needs to protect our children or         Redacted                                                                     .  
There are questions we are advised not to ask whilst criminal cases are being pursued.  All the more reasons for the council to cease its dependency on poor police recommendations and ask the good people of the town for their views, without threat of racial or criminal sanctions for voicing concern.