Area NQSW Supervisor

Role Responsibility

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Area NQSW Supervisor covering South Kent. You will be supporting and assessing a cohort of Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) to successfully complete the Kent County Council (KCC) Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme.

This role is to ensure a consistent approach to the support being offered to NQSWs within KCC in terms of caseload management, embedding the Kent Practice Framework, and development opportunities across the county in order to support recruitment and retention.

The successful candidate will work in partnership with Team Managers and ASYE Practice Educators to provide additional reflective supervision, guidance, and support to NQSWs to complete their assessment, whilst working within KCC ASYE guidelines and ensuring the Record of Support and Progressive Assessment and Critical Learning Log are completed.

Requirements: 

A recognised social work qualification with current registration with Social Work England. 

• Practice Educator Professional Standards Stage 1 Practice or working towards Stage 2. 

EXPERIENCE • Social work experience demonstrating a comprehensive and up to date understanding of all relevant legislation, regulation and guidance. 

• Experience in managing a complex caseload, chairing complex meetings, performance related issues both at an operational and strategic level and demonstrate leadership in decision making. 

• Experience of student mentorship, adult learning theories, supervision, and coaching both Social Work students and newly qualified and experienced Social Work staff, being a subject matter expert in professional social work practice.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

Contact Details

For further information regarding this role, please contact:

Julie Maguire 03000 417321 

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.