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The service

Portsmouth City Council's Multi-Agency Safeguarding Team works to keep children safe. They work closely with colleagues from the Police, Health, Education, Early Help, Probation, the Youth Justice Service and the Navy Welfare Service. As part of their approach, they are committed to working with families to repair harm and relationships. We have been recognised by Ofsted as a "Good" local authority, working effectively to provide services improving outcomes for children and their families. MASH is a dynamic and fast-moving service managing large volumes of information within tight timescales.

The role

The post holder will ensure the children and families we work with maximise their potential and achieve the best possible outcomes available to them through providing timely, high-quality assessments, ensuring that children and families who experience our service receive a quality service, ensuring planning results in timely, permanent care arrangements, working with people in a way that respects and acknowledges difference, and empowering people to make informed choices. The post holder will receive a substantial package of support and development opportunities.

We have exciting opportunities for qualified social workers to join the Children and Families directorate in one of our family support and safeguarding teams (geographically based) in Portsmouth City Council.

At children's social care service, we pride ourselves on providing quality interventions with families using UP2U family practice and trauma informed model of care to empower families to bring about sustained change; you will be provided with training in these models of practice. We also offer social workers 1-1, group reflective practice opportunities as well as action learning sessions.

We are committed to working with families to repair harm and relationships. We have been recognised by Ofsted as a "Good" local authority with "Outstanding" for our Family Safeguarding and Support teams.

Portsmouth is a fantastic place to practice, and we look forward to supporting you on your Social Work journey during the programme, which is supported via the Stronger Futures Academy. The academy is well established and continually evolves and develops.

Our 12-month ASYE programme provides 'on the job' training to help you understand and unpick the work you are completing. As part of this you will be enrolled into the ASYE Stronger Futures Academy where you will receive dedicated ASYE Academy sessions to support your understanding of the journey & voice of the child, this will include practice sessions to understand and apply models of practice and tools to support you in your work.

In addition, we offer monthly half day study days, funding to purchase your own resources, on-site assessors, peer led action learning sets and reflective practice groups.