An opportunity has arisen within our Pathway Team (Leaving Care), for 2 x Advanced Social Work Practitioner posts – one permanent and one fixed term.  

Our Pathway Team works with young people who have been under the care of the local authority and are now transitioning to adulthood. The team also works with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and refugees.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is an innovative Local Authority which constantly strives to improve the standard of services provided to children, families and young people in our area. Our vision is to ensure that vulnerable children and young people receive excellent services to keep them safe and to make sure they reach their full potential. We are on a fast paced and ambitious transformation programme which is improving the experience of children in need of our services. We have come a long way on our improvement journey, supported by the Council’s total commitment to better children’s outcomes.

Our recently published Ofsted letters demonstrate the progress we are making and the positive experiences of our social workers, practitioners and leaders who work for our service. We are all very proud of the journey we are taking and the collective effort to improve our services. Take a look at the recently published Community Care article about our improvement journey. https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2022/06/14/enthusiastic-motivated-social-workers-improve-child-protection-east-riding-council-ofsted/

East Riding has excellent transport links and our various locations make it easy to access working spaces from various locations. East Riding office spaces are only 3 - 6 miles from Hull, 13 miles from North Lincolnshire, 20 miles from North East Lincolnshire, 22 miles from Doncaster, 17 miles from Scarborough and 14 miles from York, with strong access routes via the M62 and A1079.

The Right Candidate

We are looking for practitioners with a passion about strength-based approaches and forming a relational based approach to securing good outcomes through supporting, young people, young adults and their networks. We are looking to develop and build upon your experience of working with young people and young adults and welcome you into a team that is pivotal in providing practical, social and emotional support for young people and young adults, by guiding them thorough education and job choices, helping them the find the right accommodation and providing advice on day to day living. We will welcome you into a team of supportive and highly motivated practitioners who are passionate about working with this age group and supporting our most vulnerable young people and young adults to achieve their full potential.

Why work for East Riding?

We really value our practitioners, and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families. We therefore want to invest in you and your development. This means offering high quality learning and development opportunities that support your interests and the development of your practice through our Effective Practice and Learning Team and our newly launched Effective Practice Academy. We care about your career and will help you to identify your own goals and work with you to support you to achieve that within East Riding.

Our social workers and practitioners describe East Riding as ‘a family’; we really value our relationships with each other, with the families we support, and our partner agencies. We offer flexible working approaches because we want you to be able to enjoy your own family time and we know that this is important to our staff. We listen to what our social workers and practitioners are telling us and work hard to respond and make a difference.

Our Model of Practice Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’

Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

Other important information

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.

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