Social Worker -West Locality

Social Worker - West Locality -

Grade: G9;
Salary Range: £42,839 - £46,142

Children are at the heart of Walsall local authority. They receive support, help and services that reduce risks for them and meet their needs. (Ofsted, 2025)

Do you want to join our OUTSTANDING local authority?

If so, we have an opportunity for a Social Worker to join our Family Help Locality Services

We are excited to hear from social workers who feel ready, to support children, young people and families in Walsall.

Children and families are at the heart of our practice in Walsall as identified within our recent Ofsted inspection:

Children benefit from positive, trusting relationships with their social workers. Social workers enable children, through direct work, to share their lived experiences, hopes and aspirations.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring we continue to provide Outstanding support for our children and families, through the support you provide to practitioners within your team. You will be part of a team that has created a learning organisation with effective and accountable relationships with each other and with partners (Ofsted, 2025). Your work includes supporting children, young people and families within your locality and working with a locality team to achieve great and permanent outcomes for children in our care.

• Manageable workloads
• High support from managers
• Essential paperwork only
• Enabling technologies

Within Walsall we offer a comprehensive training and development programme that contributed to our OUTSTANDING Ofsted grading in May 2025.

Training

Offer:

An impressive and wide‑ranging programme for workers in Walsall, including social work qualification support and development of frontline practice for newly qualified social workers.

Wellbeing:

• Specialised clinical supervision
• A 9‑day fortnight to support work/life balance
• Flexible working
• Specialist employee assistance and therapeutic support when needed

Salary Scale: £42, (+10% Retention Payments after 2 years, increasing at 4 and 6 years)

Would you like to talk to a team manager about the realities of working in Walsall? If so, please contact Donna Green, Group Manager –

Closing Date: 12th January 2026

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and expects all staff to share this commitment. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people and vulnerable adults.

Important note:

When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form.

We do not accept CVs. See our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this job vacancy. We are not accepting agency applications or referrals at this time.