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Community Care Worker, Amber Valley Children's Social Care, East Team About the role Derbyshire County Council have an exciting opportunity for a caring and determined Community Care Worker to join our East team in the Amber Valley Locality. This role offers progression and development, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to use your skills and experience to genuinely improve outcomes for children and young people. This is a full-time post, 37 hours per week, based at The Hub, South Normanton in the East Team. The post is permanent. The position is within a busy social work team with an experienced and committed group of colleagues, supported by a highly competent Practice Supervisor and experienced Team Manager. We are looking for motivated and dedicated applicants who can demonstrate a passion for working with vulnerable individuals within society and making a difference to children and families. What will you be doing? The role involves a range of tasks linked to social work practice in the locality including.<ul> <li>Parenting assessments</li> <li>Supporting family time</li> <li>Direct work with children</li> <li>Supporting plans for children and families.</li> <li>Engaging with other agencies and partner organisations </li> </ul>What skills and experience do you need?<ul> <li>NVQ Level 3 in Care or equivalent, or willing to work towards once in post (refer to job and person profile for more information).</li> <li>Experience of creating rapport and building effective relationships with families.</li> <li>Knowledge of Child Protection, child development and parenting abilities</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Excellent assessment and IT skills.</li> </ul>Our Community Care Worker Role attracts a starting salary of £29,719 with annual increments to £31,691 per annum. We believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:<ul> <li>Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career</li> <li>Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network</li> <li>A development programme (specific to your role) - to enable you to gain confidence and competence in your role and regularly network with your peers across the department</li> <li>Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications, including social worker degree, and career progression through our career pathways.</li> <li>DBS check undertaken and paid for by us</li> </ul>If you would like further information on this role, please contact Somma Sheppard, Team Manager on 01629 537101. For more information on our services please visit Children and family services - Derbyshire County Council What benefits do we offer you?<ul> <li>Local Government Pension Scheme</li> <li>generous annual leave and flexi-time scheme</li> <li>travel expenses</li> <li>discount on leisure centre memberships</li> <li>free car parking at most sites</li> <li>an in-house counselling service</li> <li>occupational health service</li> <li>access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist</li> <li>cycle to work scheme</li> </ul>Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks. Apply now and take the first step towards a fulfilling career with us! By joining Derbyshire County Council you will have access to a range of amazing rewards and employee benefits, including our generous annual leave scheme, excellent local government pension and fantastic employee discounts. To discover more detail about the rewards and benefits available to you, click here CS1 We welcome applications from individuals who share our values - being Collaborative, Innovative, Empowered and Accountable. These values describe who we are and what we stand for as a council. They help shape our culture, encourage consistent behaviour and guide how we work together to make a positive difference for both our employees and the residents we serve.

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