*If you are interested in this role but not based in the North West, we are often recruiting in other regions (North East, Midlands, South West and London) so please send your CV to People@thefrontline.org.uk and we’ll be in touch when there's a vacancy.

Your application answers will be reviewed blind to ensure fairness. Your responses will be randomised and the shortlisting panel will not see any details about you including your CV. Your CV will only be seen after shortlisting if you have been invited to an interview.

We will close earlier if we receive enough suitable applications, therefore early applications are encouraged.

To help us achieve our mission, we are recruiting qualified social workers with direct experience of working with children and families and knowledge and experience of supporting social work students. Practice Tutors (PTs) lead the delivery of teaching across the year, support participants in their local authority units and supervise participants during the 2nd year of the Frontline programme.

Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if not already held.

A full job description can be found here.

The Freedom and Responsibility paper can be found here.

We currently lack racial diversity in our Practice Tutor group and want our organisation to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we are actively seeking applicants from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds for this role.