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Full time, 36 hours per week
Basic salary up to £50,088 per annum
There are few better feelings as a children’s social worker than knowing you have the backing of your colleagues to try new approaches that protect vulnerable young people. Here at Southwark, that’s the way we work: group supervision, close multi-agency relationships and senior-level visibility all come together to allow you to do things differently. Join us and you’ll find a career few can match for positive impact and progress.
Driven by positive outcomes
We’ll look to you to provide a comprehensive, effective, and highly responsive integrated social work service that meets the needs of children and their families. You’ll work side-by-side with the practice group to assess need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.
Your vital role
We’ll assign you a manageable number of cases that allow your natural skills and expertise to flourish. You will:
- Work directly with children and provide a clear and accurate assessment of the needs of the child and their family in each case
- Conduct interviews, develop observations and gather information from children, families and other agencies as directed by the Team Manager
- Devise, implement and review care plans, including the development and management of protection plans within a child protection framework
- Ensure all statutory responsibilities are well managed, including visiting children, arranging reviews and reporting to the court.
What you bring
We’re looking for impressive experience of direct social work with children and their families. You’ll also bring:
- The ability to formulate and implement effective social work interventions
- Experience of preparing reports and presenting these in contested court proceedings
- Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental issues, and risk and protective factors
- A recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England
- The ability to collate and analyse complex information, and produce clear, good quality data.
- Either successful completion of ASYE year, or at least two years recent experience in a social work role within a statutory setting
On a personal level, you’ll be a positive team-spirited presence, happy to suggest new ideas and innovations, and always on hand to offer help to colleagues when needed.
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Full time, 36 hours per week
Basic salary up to £54,135 per annum
‘Keeping families strong’ is a complex and challenging mission. Everything we do is aimed at achieving it. Join us as a Senior Social Worker and you can look forward to systemic, holistic practice, group supervision, excellent clinical support and some of the most ingrained multi-agency working you’ll find anywhere.
An unswerving focus on safeguarding
Managing complex cases, you’ll be at your best, delivering excellent social work practice, assessing needs, planning and working purposefully with families, support networks and other professionals to manage risk. All with the unswerving focus on safeguarding the vulnerable children and young people of our borough.
Collaborative working
We take pride in the way we work in Southwark. We’ll look to you to provide a social work service that is both relationship-based and highly responsive. You’ll work collaboratively in a no-blame culture, supporting the development of best practice and confident practitioners. This will mean using your expertise to coach and mentor students, newly-qualified social workers and less experienced practitioners.
What you bring
We’re looking for an impressive track record in children’s social care, including experience of:
- Delivering direct social work with children and their families that brings about positive change, from the beginning of the case to the outcome of their care plan
- Leading investigations under Section 47 CA 89 and of holistic assessments and parenting assessments for birth or connected children
- Understanding of and commitment to the approaches within Southwark’s practice framework: systemic practices including Signs of Safety, restorative practices, and trauma/attachment-informed approaches including Secure Base
- Providing professional leadership, including practice educating social work students on placement, or supporting the development of others.
You also need to have:
- A recognised social work qualification
- Current registration with Social Work England
- Knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory guidance and working together to safeguarding children
- A full understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors.
On a personal level, we’re looking for team-spirited, generous, supportive professionals who are committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
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Full time, 36 hours per week
Basic salary up to £58,197 per annum
At Southwark Children’s Services, we pride ourselves on doing our vital job differently. Our systemic, holistic, family-centred approach sits at the core of our values. And our endlessly supportive, collective, colleague-centred culture underpins everything we do to protect vulnerable children across our borough. Join us as a Team Manager and you’ll lead, manage and guide high-calibre, close-knit professionals working to keep families strong.
Championing excellent practice
We’ll look to you to promote, encourage and oversee excellent social work practice, including assessing need, planning and working purposefully with families, support networks and partners to bring about positive outcomes.
You’ll:
- Shape and influence the practice system and service development by sharing practice knowledge, expertise, data and research findings
- Create a working environment that develops excellent and confident practitioners
- Champion a CPD-led culture, with impressive training, learning and research opportunities
- Be on hand to ensure the delivery of a social work service that’s highly responsive and relationship-based
- Manage relationships with partners and agencies, and represent the council at multi-agency meetings.
Your background
To thrive in this visible and influential role you’ll need a diverse range of expertise, experience and knowledge.
You’ll bring:
- A track record of professional leadership, with accountability for practice and people development
- Impressive experience of direct, complex social work with children and families
- Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental issues, and risk and protective factors
- The ability to lead service improvements and embed best practice
- A recognised social work qualification
- Current registration with Social Work England
- Knowledge of best practice for assessment and care planning, and understanding of and commitment to the approaches within Southwark’s practice framework: systemic practices including Signs of Safety, restorative practices, and trauma/attachment-informed approaches including Secure Base
This is an excellent opportunity to shine in an ambitious, well-resourced, well-regarded and stable social care environment.
If you have any questions about any of our opportunities please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected]