Job Description

Do you believe in the power of social work to improve lives and inspire lasting change?

Are you obsessed with enabling families to overcome adversity?

Do your values drive you to continue learning, listening, and improving?

Are you a leader committed to helping children thrive in families, achieve in schools, and flourish in their communities?


If so, you may want to join us in North Lincolnshire! Following the retirement of our current PSW, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Children's Practice and Assurance (Principal Social Worker) to join our incredible team, workforce, and community. The successful candidate will continue to drive our culture of excellence and high standards as we take forward national reforms. Working to the Assistant Director Standards and Regulations, you will enable best outcomes to achieve our One Family Approach ambition for children to thrive in their families, achieve in schools, and flourish in their community.


North Lincolnshire Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of our community regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation. North Lincolnshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.


North Lincolnshire Council offers agile, flexible working with a focus on the wellbeing of our workforce with access to comprehensive training, resources and support in your continuous professional development.


Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.


Interviews will take place on Thursday 12th June


If you would like any further information, please contact Tom Hewis, Assistant Director Children's Standards and Regulations at tom.hewis@northlincs.gov.uk

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.