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Advanced Social Work Practitioner, Locality x 2 posts

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Rotherham, S60 1AEView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£48,738 to £51,928

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time

Closing date

25 October 2026

6 days left

Job description

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People’s Service. For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit our CYPS Microsite: https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/childrens-social-work-jobs

Come and join the team here in Rotherham! Why?

We have a strong, visible, accessible leadership team and a heartfelt pledge to deliver outstanding services to children and their families.

We have an established ‘Rotherham family approach’ that assists us in how we work with families and how we care and support our workforce.

We pride ourselves on our strong learning culture and use this positively to develop staff and improve practice.

We strongly believe in ‘growing our own’. Your development and career goals are important to us. We will support you to achieve your career ambitions. Whether this is supporting you to be a confident Social Worker, advanced practitioner, practice consultant or move through to management, we’ve got you and your career journey!

You will be joining an authority rated as Outstanding by Ofsted.

We have a generous annual leave allowance and excellent benefits.

An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Advanced Practitioner’s in Central Locality – Team Rawmarsh and Team Wingfield

Our Children and Young People’s Service are currently recruiting an Advanced Practitioner, the “practice expert” in every child’s social care team.

Linking to the Principal Social Worker across the whole social care function, they play a key role in the development of other Social Workers and achieving the best possible practice standards for Rotherham children.

Developing learning solutions that enable specialisms in practice, designing and delivering bespoke packages of training; they will create a culture of learning and coaching that provides Social Workers with skills as trainers, mentors and coaches.

  • Have a reduced caseload
  • Offer mentoring and development work for other Social Workers, including carrying out observed practice, direct teaching and co-working
  • Embed Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice approaches in practice
  • Develop their own practice and skills in training, coaching and mentoring and use these in operational teams, working with between six or seven other Social Workers, under supervision of Team Managers
  • Lead (with peers) on the practice development agenda across the organisation, as a part of an Advanced Practitioner network led by Principal Social Worker

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email them to -

Jamie Cripps, Service Manager Central Locality – jamie.cripps@rotherham.gov.uk

Jemma Dean, Team Manager – jemma.dean@rotherham.gov.uk

Leanne Naylor, Acting Team Manager – leanne.naylor@rotherham.gov.uk

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

LG Jobs

First seen

8 October 2026

Last checked

18 October 2026

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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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