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Having the ability to keep a child safe or a family together is a wonderful thing.
Working in Children’s Services offers diverse careers that cannot be rivalled for impact where the positive impacts of your work will extend a long way beyond your day-to-day role.
Helping to keep a child safe means that you are giving them a better chance of a happy, healthy and thriving future.
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At Dorset Council Children Services we passionately believe that strengthening families and communities - 'working with', not 'doing to' is the key to unlocking potential and aspiration.
We want children to be ambitious for their future. We have a great opportunity to innovate and drive forward sector leading work that ensures services are fit for the future.
We have a diverse range of job roles in Children's Services; you can support colleagues who work with Dorset children or support Dorset children directly.
The Academy was created in 2020 to support the professional development of our social care teams and create a Centre of Excellence for social work in Dorset Council.
We are keen to recruit newly qualified social workers and experienced social workers into our Social Work Academy.
Find out how we can support you at every stage in your career.
Learn more about the academy.
We prioritise support, learning, development, and wellbeing across our workforce. We celebrate and share good practice and will give you the training and development you need to excel.
We are an Ofsted rated Good authority with Outstanding Leadership. We keep children and families at the heart of practice by working within our Practice Framework.
Within Dorset our focus is on working within communities and with multi-agency input, responding to the individual needs of the communities we work with and approaching families in a restorative and strengths-based approach.
Social workers are at the heart of what we do. We are committed to providing the support, training, and development you need to continue to improve your professional practice as a social worker.
You will be providing care and support to children and young people initially in a residential setting working or working across our communities and in homes to improve the lives of our children.
This role involves direct work with children, young people and their families, creating, supporting and contributing to multi-agency plans and interventions to improve outcomes and life chances for our children and young people in Dorset.
Social workers are at the heart of what do. We are committed to providing the support, training and development you need to continue to improve your professional practice as a social worker.
Recruiting, assessing and supporting adoptive parents and foster carers, our team matches children to families and provides continual support. As a fostering Social Worker you will be able to support Dorset's foster carers and help them achieve great outcomes for the children they care for.
Support the development of Education, Health and Care Plans that are co-produced with the children, their families and the settings they attend. This role involves direct work with children and families.
Occupational Therapists provide advice, reassurance, support, assessment and intervention to help children and young people develop their skills in everyday activities.
Educational psychologists work with children, young people, families and schools, using psychology to promote positive outcomes in relation to wellbeing, communication and learning