Salary: £42,839 up to £47,181 per annum
Grade: L
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time 37 Per Week
Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire
A welcome from the Corporate Director of Children and Young People
Thank you for your interest in joining our Children and Young People’s service.
As the new Director for Children and Young People, here in North Yorkshire I am excited to announce significant investment in our children and families service.
More capacity. More prevention. Better outcomes.
Be part of a service investing in family help and sustainable practice.
Across local government, children’s services are facing unprecedented demand and funding constraint. Many organisations are responding by reducing capacity and narrowing ambition. We have chosen a different path. In response to the Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we in NYC are seeking to expand out teams in order to drive the changes of supporting children and their families at the earliest opportunity, right time, right person.
We are making a significant and sustained investment in our workforce—creating new and additional capacity across children’s social care, which will become Family help and our Multi agency child protections teams. At a time when others are making savings, we are growing our teams because we believe that safe, effective and relationship-based practice relies on practitioners having the time, support and professional space to do their best work, with children.
Hear more from El Mayhew Corporate Director Children and Young People service outline our investment plans, about our children services and new career opportunities visit:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
About the service
North Yorkshire Council have a national reputation for excellence, and we are looking for a Specialist Social Worker. Here at North Yorkshire Council, we are extremely proud of the work our Children’s Services do; Ofsted has recently recognised their hard work, rating us as Outstanding across all areas. We are now pleased to be offering the opportunity to join our highly acclaimed service and help us continue to offer an excellent provision.
You will be part of a small and committed team working across child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, missing children, and contextual safeguarding. While the Specialist Social Worker roles are currently non–case holding, there is an expectation that this will evolve, with a likely future focus on holding cases for those children at highest risk of exploitation. In the meantime, the role requires you to provide oversight and support to Children and Families staff and wider partners, encouraging innovative approaches to complex casework.
Requirements
Specialist Social Workers are integral in developing relationships and working alongside multi agency partners to ensure the right outcomes for children.
You will be given the opportunity to attend varied and bespoke training child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, missing, contextual safeguarding and private fostering furthering your own CPD as well as sharing learning within the wider workforce.
Ideally, the successful candidate will hold a Practice Educator qualification or bring substantial experience in practice education aligned to the Practice Educator Professional Standards. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to developing others, with the ability to provide reflective supervision, support learning and professional development, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement across the workforce. Experience in coaching, mentoring, or supporting newly qualified social workers and students will be highly valued, alongside the ability to model best practice in complex safeguarding contexts.
The specialist social work team is committed to work with children and their families/carers, using a range of solution focussed, strength-based relationship practice models, including Signs of Safety, Systemic theory and the Family Finding approach. We are looking for an individual who can help us continue to offer a unique service and truly make a difference to the young people of our county.
Before applying via this vacancy please review additional information about working for North Yorkshire Council, what staff say about working in North Yorkshire, our CPD offer and career opportunities visit in addition to the job description and interview dates https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
It is an exciting time in Children and Young Peoples Services in North Yorkshire as we plan our approach in respect of the Families First Partnership Programme and how we will be responding to the social care reforms. Work is underway to plan our approach and implementations for 2027. As a result of this, some realignment may happen with job roles in the future, we want to be transparent about this in respect of this role.
What can we offer you?
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.
These include:
- A local government pension scheme with 15.1% employer contribution
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
- Travel loans
- Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Contact Details:
For further information regarding the roles contact Heidi Ransome [email protected]
Key Documents
Job Description.pdf
Total Rewards Brochure
Key Dates
Closing date: Sunday 12th July 2026
Interview date: W/C 20th July 2026
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults or children at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
