Job Description

Do you have knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with additional needs, special educational needs and disabilities and their families? Are you able to challenge barriers to the inclusion of children and young people with additional needs and disabilities? Do you have a degree or level 3 qualification in social care, education, health or related area?

If the answer is Yes - we have an exciting opportunity additional

Social Care Practitioners

to join our

EHCP Hub

in the Disabled Children and Specialist Services located at B Bond (The Create Centre). Our EHCP Hub undertakes a social care contribution for every child or young person undergoing an EHC needs assessment.

We have vacancies for:

1 Full Time Permanent

Social Care Practitioner

2 Full Time Fixed Term

Social Care Practitioners (Fixed to 31 March 2026)

Disabled Children Service and Specialist Services is a dynamic service that stays involved with a child through the breadth of social care intervention, holding the child's hand through their journey from various services.

The team has extensive skills and experience and a "can do" ethos. We aim to offer support at the earliest opportunity to build resilience within family networks to prevent escalation and crisis. We support children and young people with additional needs to be access short break activities in their local community. It is our aim that Short Breaks will contribute to keeping children and young people safe and healthy, enabling them to enjoy new activities, make friends and have new learning opportunities - as well as preparing teenagers for adulthood. By providing children and young people such opportunities, we support parents and carers in their role as primary carers and give them breaks to assist them to look after themselves and their wider family.

We offer practical help and emotional support to disabled children, young people and their families experiencing short or long-term difficulties. We provide support to empower families to address various challenges, reducing problems and risks. We can help parents, carers and disabled children and young people with a range of social and personal issues.

The Disabled Children and Specialist Services offer includes:
EHCP Hub - Working with families to provide them with advice and information whilst completing a Social Care Contribution towards the EHCNA process. FLORA - our early identification and support service helping parents and professionals navigate support through our Local Offer. Inclusion Service - supporting the inclusion of children with additional needs in community activities. Specialist Family Support Service - offering direct support to families with children with additional needs Carers Wellbeing Grant Disabled Children Register Specialist Social Worker Teams Two Residential Short Break Children's Homes Residential Children's Home Family Based Short Break Service Direct Payment Service - supporting parents and carers choice and control to source bespoke care support

Please note: currently the role is hybrid working - working both from home and the office.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you'll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you'll be working in a supportive environment where you'll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you'll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.



It is Bristol City Council's practice to request references for candidates that have been offered a job. However, if you are applying for a job that requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check then we will request your references once you have been invited to an interview.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

If you would like to know more information about our exciting and rewarding role, please contact Ali Hiscox via email:

ali.hiscox@bristol.gov.uk

Shortlisting will take place 25

th

September 2025

Interviews will be held on 1

st

and 2

nd

October 2025

*

candidates should ensure that they are available for interview on these dates*



Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black and racially minoritised, Disabled and Male candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.
The personal information section (including your name) you'll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.