Advanced Social Worker

Number of Vacancies:

1

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Proposed Interview Date:

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Hours of Work:

37

Hiring Manager:

Gaynor Skelton

Contact Number: 

01482 612284

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for Advanced Social Workers to join us in various teams across Hull. Hull Children's Services has recently achieved its strongest ever Ofsted judgement, being rated Good overall, with Outstanding judgements for the impact of leaders on social work practice and for the experiences and progress of care leavers. Inspectors recognised the significant progress made across the service, describing it as "safer, stronger and more consistent" for children and families.

Ofsted highlighted Hull's strong workforce culture, effective early help services, strong management oversight, and a commitment to ensuring children's voices are central to decision-making.

This is an exciting time to join Hull. We are a service with a clear vision, ambitious plans for the future, and a workforce committed to improving the lives of children, young people and families every day.

The retention and learning and development offers are well received.
All Advanced Social Workers benefit from having the cost of their Social Work England registration paid.

We would love to hear from passionate and motivated qualified Advanced Social Workers interested in joining us. All Advanced Social Workers benefit from training in Signs of Safety and excellent learning, development, and progression opportunities.

Why it's great to work for Hull City Council:
• A competitive salary of up to £49,817
• Relocation Allowance for newly appointed staff moving from outside the area
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Free Parking on most sites (City Centre sites – reduced price parking passes)
• Laptops and mobile phones for all social workers
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Cycle to Work and car schemes
• Pool Car availability
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Gaynor Skelton or via email: gaynor.skelton@hullcc.gov.uk.

We provide a range of benefits to motivate, reward and recognise the valuable work of our employees.

ROLE AND PURPOSE
Advanced Social Workers are based in one of the following service areas:

• Locality based safeguarding teams
• Permanence teams

Advanced Social Worker are highly skilled and experienced Social Workers and the key purpose of the role is to deliver high quality social work practice which achieves the best possible outcomes (and progress) for children and young people in need of social work support, assessment and intervention.

Advanced Social Workers will demonstrate a high standard of systemic practice, providing support and co working with less experienced members of the team.

Importantly Advanced Social Workers will model and help others to develop key elements of Systemic practice including;

• A strengths and relationship based approach
• Different perspectives and collaboration
• Family & Goal orientated plans which are SMART
• The value of systemic tools such as; genograms

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Strategy

Advanced Social Workers will contribute to the overarching strategy and vision of the service, ensuring that practice demonstrates robust risk management arrangements. Practice will evidence a suitable focus on permanency and stability for children, through purposeful social work and other practice.

Advanced Social Workers will contribute to and engage with a wider context; team, service, directorate, council and wider partnership.      

2. Customer Focus

The role works in partnership with colleagues, parents and carers to ensure that child centred systemic practice is the understood standard and expectation. This extends to other parts of the service and a priority to actively demonstrate a commitment to child and family feedback and a solution focused approach.   

This principle and standard extended to recording  and Advanced Social Workers will be required to demonstrate good report writing and assessment skills.

3. Performance Management

Advanced Social Workers are expected to manage high levels of risk and complexity in casework. The role will manage a complex caseload, evidencing robust analysis and focused and purposeful practice.

Advanced Social Workers will be required to contribute to routine quality assurance work, including case audit, observation of practice and child and family feedback. 

4. Leadership

Advanced Social Workers will support the Team Manager with important aspects of the management role including; team development work & co working complex cases with less experienced team members.

The role will model leadership qualities within practice, working with and supporting the Team Manager to set a clear standard of expected practice; practice which is reflective, analytical and purposeful.

Advanced Social Workers will have a high level of knowledge and commitment to the systemic model, ensuring that the integrity of the model is maintained and strengthened at a team level. The role will support team members in developing systemic practice. 

5. Statutory Obligations

Advanced Social Workers are required to have a high level of understanding regarding the statutory framework in which they practice. The role will work with the Team Manager to ensure that statutory requirements are met and that an appropriate focus is given to practice improvement and inspection preparation.

6. The role holds case responsibility for complex casework and provides a co working and support role for less experienced members of the team.

The expectation is that all  social work with children, young people and families is evidenced based and focused, ensuring that interventions are completed in a timely way. Advanced Social Workers will have good assessment skills and be able to consistently deliver a high standard of written reports, including court reports.  

7. Advanced Social Workers will  provide support and informal supervision to other members of the team, enhancing the formal supervision provided by the team manager role.

The post will provide formal supervision to the Family Practitioner and social work students, providing an important role in terms of staff development. 

8. Advanced Social Workers will be the lead worker for complex court work and will be required to support less experienced staff in developing court skills and preparing reports and assessments for court.

Advanced Social Workers will be required to prepare work and support others in preparing work for formal meetings and/or processes, including; Case Conference Meetings, Looked After Children Reviews and key Decision Making Panels.

9. Undertakes co working with colleagues on specific direct work, reports and assessments where advanced practitioner level support and/or oversight is required. Balancing co working commitments alongside the accountability of holding a caseload will be a priority for the role.

10. Contributes to the development of effective partnerships in order to achieve ‘a coordinated approach to ensure effective safeguarding arrangements’ (section 10, Children ACT 2004). The role will work with schools and partners to support and facilitate successful transition for families to community and family based services.

 

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Compensation Grades:

GRADES 10.

Pay Ranges:

£45,091.00 - £48,226.00

Job Classifications:

3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), 5- Enhanced & Childrens Barring List - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), Essential 3A - It is essential for the postholder to have a current driving licence and to provide a car for work. (i.e. someone who did not meet these requirements could not be appointed to the post, since it would be impossible for the postholder to do the job without using a private car). These requirements would be essential criteria on the person specification for the post. (Travel Allowance Policy), Post Fulfilling Statutory Duty - (Statutory Post), Yes - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement)

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. 

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.