Practice Educator, Social Work

Worcestershire’s Social Work Academy: Our Social Work Academy is well established and supports Adult all levels in their career, with a focus: on Students, Apprentices, Newly Qualified Social Workers, and Practice Educators. It offers social workers a career development pathway with access to high quality and diverse Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities and is aligned to social work frameworks and Social Work England Professional standards. We have an exciting opportunity for a Social Work Practice Educator to join our friendly and high performing team. You will be supporting, developing, coaching, and mentoring newly qualified social workers completing their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment within the Adult Social Work workforce. This is a non-case holding role however you will be involved in completing direct observations of practice. There's never been a better time to join our Academy Team where you can make a difference to the lives of people in Worcestershire. Our Social Work Academy is well established and supports Adult Social Workers at all levels in their career, with a focus on Students, Apprentices, Newly Qualified Social Workers, and Practice Educators. It offers social workers a career development pathway with access to high quality and diverse Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and is aligned to the Social Work frameworks and Social Work England Professional standards. You will join a team of experienced Practice educators passionate about ‘making a difference’ to the social workers they support and their practice with adults. The team thrive in making learning dynamic, diverse, innovative and in line with the changing landscape of social work. There is an opportunity to provide direct supervision and mentoring to individual students and receive the practice education honorarium. This is a diverse and varied role, offering the right candidate an opportunity to further develop their skills and knowledge across Adults Social Work and remain up to date with the national, regional, and local social work developments and research. You will have opportunity to facilitate action learning sets, Social Work England CPD sessions and promote Research In Practice. Your own development will be considered with opportunity to complete relevant CPD.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.
 
For more information please contact me on Taylor.johnson@pprsocialcare.co.uk or 07813 347 703