About this role
Location : Hybrid (2 days in London Office) with travel expected across the South Region. Please note that travel to the London office is at your own expense. Contract : Full Time, Permanent Please note, this ad will close Monday 12th October at 9am The purpose of your role To help us achieve our mission, we are recruiting qualified social workers with direct experience of working with children and families, and knowledge and experience of supporting social work students. We are looking for candidates who can contribute to the delivery of teaching across the year, support participants in their local authority hubs and supervise participants during the 2nd year of Approach Social Work. Practice Tutors (PTs) play a key role within the development and delivery of our social work curriculum, contributing knowledge and expertise to create a culture that promotes outstanding social work education. PTs are responsible for teaching and developing participants at the Readiness to Practice stage, regional teaching days and, in participant hubs within local authorities. PTs support four practice hubs, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each practice hub is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW). Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs to ensure a high-quality practice learning experience. Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and can make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. Practice Learning of Participant Hubs Use social work knowledge, theory, practice skill and experience to develop and support participants to become outstanding social workers Visit practice hubs regularly and attend some hub meetings, deliver online practice seminars to your hubs and hold individual tutorials with participants. All teaching is a mix of face to face and online to both large groups and smaller multi hubs groups Support participants academic progress, provide detailed and timely feedback and mark assignments within set timescales to meet exam board requirements Lead reviews of participants’ progress in line with programme timelines- Work closely with the participants to progress their journey through the programme. This will involve regular problem solving and emotional support Consultant Social Workers Support CSWs to lead the hubs, role model best social work practice and support effective practice educators Use mentoring and coaching techniques to support CSWs to be effective in their leadership, management and practice educator roles Support CSWs to hold consistently high-quality hub meetings that embed systemic practice, motivational interviewing and parenting interventions- Develop the CSWs’ skills and competence in the CSW role, using agreed competencies and development framework Develop the CSWs’ skills and competence in the CSW role, using agreed competencies and development framework Work with placement and partnership managers to ensure the CSW role is understood and valued in the local authority Teaching Teach for year one participants is during the Readiness for Practice stage both in person and online, attend face to face regional recall days and whole cohort online teaching.. There is also online teaching for our year 2 participants on the programme through large lectures, small seminars and one to one support as necessary Provide high quality hub teaching and supervise dissertations of 2nd year participants Contribute to the development of teaching and learning materials and deliver content to the highest possible standard Promote the Frontline practice models (systemic practice, motivational interviewing and evidence informed parenting interventions) through all teaching Remain up-to-date on research and practice developments, particularly in the field of child protection to provide relevant and targeted support to participants and CSWs Demonstrate a commitment to knowledge generation through practice-based knowledge acquisition and research