BCP Partnership
Academy

Could you play a part in delivering an outstanding service that improves the lives of the children in our community? If so, our children's services team are looking for you.

Our vision is that BCP is a great place to live, where all children and young people have the best possible opportunities in life and are supported by the community to flourish and grow in order to succeed.

We are looking for colleagues to join us who can help us realise this vision. If you think big, enjoy a challenge and can bring fresh ideas to our services to help enhance the lives of our local children then come and work with us.

To transform and improve our services we are looking for committed and resilient social care professionals who will be fully supported to become the best practitioner that they can whilst developing a meaningful career.

We want the best possible outcomes for children and young people across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Our children’s services teams aim to create the right environment for social work to flourish and for our children and young people to achieve their goals and ambitions.

If you're dedicated to making a real difference, have the skills, experience and commitment and if you want to be part of a team where your efforts and contributions will be noticed.

We offer excellent rates of pay and experienced social workers who join us can expect a one-off £3,000 payment (pro-rata).

We have aligned our corporate values to reflect our commitment to children and young people. 

How we work

All our social work teams comprise of managers, social workers and support workers. Excellent partnership working is a feature of all our services with well-established professional relationships within BCP Council services, partner agencies, other areas of children’s services.

We use a child-centred practice model and all staff are offered training and support to embed this into their work with children and their families.

Full induction and access to our academy, and an active invitation to join our learning community.

We offer a structured approach with supported orientation, shadowing opportunities as well as well as learning opportunities, and mentoring.

We will work with you to ensure there is a balanced approach to managing your workload. This includes manageable numbers of allocated children and young people, which is not about numbers here in BCP Council, but is focussed on people, need and complexity weighting.

Continuing professional development

You will be encouraged to develop your skills through training, group supervision and reflective practice workshops. We work closely with Bournemouth University within our Teaching Partnership which has a well-established post-qualifying programme of learning that we support our practitioners to take advantage of. This supports career development and dedicated CPD time is available.

Quality reflective supervision

Dedicated and regular 1:1 supervision with your professional line manager; group supervision and annual appraisals.

Open communication

We have open communication between senior leadership and front-line practitioners through our Progress Forum, regular team meetings, all colleague events and regular virtual meetings. We value our workforce and discuss issues so we can problem solve together.