Children's Social Worker - Locality Service

About the Role and our Ideal Candidate

Join Children Social Care as a Social Worker on selected pay grades and be eligible for our Golden Hello and a Recruitment and

Retention Bonus as follows

£1000 paid in your first month's salary

£1000 paid for your first completed year in service

£2000 paid for your second completed year in service

£3000 paid for your third completed year in service and every year thereafter

Reimbursement of Social Work England Registration

Flexible working model that allows social workers to manage their diary to meet the needs of the service.

We've got an exciting opportunity for confident and experienced Social Workers to join our Locality Team in Children’ Social Care. Our objective is to deliver the best outcomes for children and young people.

Your responsibilities will include

To support children and young people through robust assessment, SMART planning and effective intervention to achieve positive outcomes within their families and communities.

Working within a restorative practice approach to form partnerships with families and multi-agency colleagues in intervening to address both the presenting concerns and underlying difficulties.

Leading and coordinating multi-agency partnerships, plans, interventions, and meetings to ensure children and young people are safe and their holistic needs are being met.

Reporting to the Team Manager, you will work within the frameworks of Section 17 and Section 47 - undertaking assessments, planning, and interventions with children and their families. Your role will consist of completing direct work with children to keep them safe, ensuring their voice, wishes and views are central to the planning and delivery of the care we provide. Compliance is key to our statutory requirements. As a Social Worker, you will deliver all aspects of work in accordance with safeguarding policy, procedure, and standards, ensuring that the children are at the heart of your decision making.

Your role will consist of completing direct work with children to keep them safe, ensuring their voice, wishes and views are central to the planning and delivery of the care we provide. Compliance is key to our statutory requirements. As a Social Worker, you will deliver all aspects of work in accordance with safeguarding policy, procedure, and standards, ensuring that the children are at the heart of your decision making.

Are you ready to progress your career? We are committed to supporting your development as you embark on your journey with Suttons Children Social Care service. Apply today and become part of our pursuit of excellence.

Our ideal candidate

The successful candidates will be enthusiastic and motivated individuals with a caring and calm approach who have a thorough understanding of the frameworks that underpin social work practice. You will bring insight and experience to the team and the lives of children and show initiative which will help develop our services to an outstanding standard. You must also enjoy working in a high pace team, being able to deliver consistency, energy, and passion to make a difference in children's and young people's lives. You will demonstrate empathy when dealing with sensitive situations and strong interpersonal skills using different ways of communicating. Showcasing the ability to assess and record a child's needs, applied through evidence based practice to justify decision making.

In addition, We would expect the successful candidate to demonstrate the following competences (not limited to)

you are a Qualified Social Worker with a Social Work degree or recognised qualification and registered with the relevant regulatory body Social Work England

2 years post qualifying practice experience, ideally within a UK regulated authority

hold the relevant skills, knowledge and aptitude to ensure that all vulnerable people are safeguarded from abuse and that all statutory functions, local policy, procedures are adhered to in a timely manner and documented accordingly

Can commit to 1 full week in the office every 4 weeks, as part of the Duty rota

Please note

Social Workers may be required to travel outside the Borough to visit clients as part of their caseload. Further details regarding the caseload and travel expectations will be provided during the interview process.

Our culture of strong, accessible and supportive management will provide you with good regular supervision and the opportunity to take part in case discussions.

Our Offer To You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include

A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade

Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave

Two volunteering days per year

Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)

Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks

Learning and development portal offering a range of courses

Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres

Interest free season ticket loans

Local Government Pension Scheme

Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle leasing scheme

Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support