Social Services Salary bandings and benefits

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Dear Lancashire County Council,

Please can you provide me with:

The salary scales (from and up to £), for all Social Workers positions in Adult and Children’s services: for example,
• Newly Qualified Social Worker
• Social Worker
• Senior Social Worker
• Senior Practitioner
• Team Manager
• Head of Service
• Occupational Therapist
• AHMP’s
• Best Interest Assessor and any other job title that you may have in your structure.

Please can you include the benefits package also:
• Amount of holidays/annual leave they are entitled to and what this goes up to
• Any golden hellos or welcome payments and if yes how much
• Any competency payments and if yes how much and how do they qualify
• Any retention bonus and if yes how much and when is it paid?
• If you have a car lease scheme? Or offer pool cars or any other assistance with a car?
• Any additional bonus / benefits that you promote?
• Relocation package amount £

How many FTE do you have in Adults services, how manay FTE’s do you have in Childrens social services

How many temporary workers (staff employed via an agency) do you currently have in Adults Social Servives
How many temporary workers (staff employed via an agency) do you currently have in Childrens Social services

Yours faithfully,

Katie Pattrick

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Dear Ms Pattrick

 

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

 

We refer to your request for information made under the provisions of the
above Act. Please see below our response.

 

Request & Response:

 

The salary scales (from and up to £), for all Social Workers positions in
Adult and Children’s services: for example,

 

•           Newly Qualified Social Worker          Grade 8.  £27668 -
£31601

•           Social Worker                                     Grade 8

•           Senior Social Worker                         Grade 9.  £31601
- £36379

•           Senior Practitioner                              Grade 9

•           Team Manager                                   Grade 11. 
£41025 - £44757

•           Head of Service                                 Grade 14. 
£63349 - £69445

•           Occupational Therapist                      Grade 8 or 9

•           AHMP’s                                              Grade 9

•           Best Interest Assessor                        Same as Social
Workers

 

Please can you include the benefits package also:

 

•           Any golden hellos or welcome payments and if yes how much

•           Any competency payments and if yes how much and how do they
qualify

•           Any retention bonus and if yes how much and when is it paid?

•           If you have a car lease scheme? Or offer pool cars or any
other assistance with a car?

•           Any additional bonus / benefits that you promote?

We do not offer any of the benefits detailed in the above points to Social
Workers. We do have the 'Refer a Friend' Scheme whereby if an LCC refers a
friend to apply for specific, hard-to-fill, SW roles, and they are
successful, we pay them £500 (details attached). The other benefits we
offer are available to all staff and are detailed in the above attachment
labelled 'Rewards & Benefits'

 

•           Relocation package amount £

Please see attached document labelled 'Relocation Allowance'

 

·         How many FTE do you have in Adults services, how many FTE’s do
you have in Children's social services

·         How many temporary workers (staff employed via an agency) do you
currently have in Adults Social Services How many temporary workers (staff
employed via an agency)  do you currently have in Children's Social
services

Please be advised that we are waiting for the above information to be
provided from the relevant Service. As soon as we are in receipt of this,
we shall forward this on to you as a matter of urgency.

We hope the above is informative. In respect of the outstanding queries,
we will provide you with this as soon as we are in a position to do so.

Thank you for your patience.

Yours Sincerely,

On Behalf of the Information Governance Team

Legal & Democratic Services

Lancashire County Council

[1][Lancashire County Council request email]

[2]www.lancashire.gov.uk

 

 

 

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Freedom of Information, Lancashire County Council

Dear Ms Pattrick

 

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

 

We refer to your request for information, made under the provisions of the
above Act. Please see below the information for the remaining two queries.

 

Outstanding Request & Response:

 

·         How many FTE do you have in Adults services, how many FTE’s do
you have in Children's social services?

 

The FTE's are below.

 

Children's
Services 1430.32
Adult
Services 2173.19

 

 

·         How many temporary workers (staff employed via an agency) do you
currently have in Adults Social Services How many temporary workers (staff
employed via an agency)  do you currently have in Children's Social
services?

We currently have 70 in Adults Social Services and 114 in Children's
Social Services.

We hope the above is informative.

 

Yours Sincerely,

On Behalf of the Information Governance Team

Legal & Democratic Services

Lancashire County Council

[1][Lancashire County Council request email]

[2]www.lancashire.gov.uk

 

 

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