Children's Social Worker Talent Pool

London Social Work for Children; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local social service organization in Wandsworth is seeking Social Workers to join their talent pool. This role includes supporting families and working within multi-agency teams to foster positive outcomes for children. Applicants should have a Social Work England qualification and exhibit strong communication and collaborative skills. The organization offers attractive salary packages, various bonuses, professional development opportunities, and promotes a supportive working culture focused on client welfare.

Benefits

£5,000 welcome bonus

£1,000 retention bonus

Performance related salary progression

32 days annual leave

Relocation package

Employee development opportunities

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Hold social work qualification with Social Work England membership and completed ASYE Year.
• Experience working with voluntary and statutory agencies and knowledge of legislation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, understanding the needs of children.

Responsibilities

• Support children to live at home wherever possible through effective collaboration.
• Champion best practices to enhance positive outcomes for children and families.
• Join multi-agency teams to work on comprehensive support strategies.

Skills

Excellent communication

Collaboration

Compassion

Creativity

Can do attitude

Education

Social work qualification with Social Work England membership

Job description

Children's Social Work Talent Pool

Various salary packages plus benefits
Permanent, Full Time (36 Hours)
Wandsworth
Ofsted Rating: ‘Good’

Benefits

• £5,000 welcome bonus and £1,000 retention bonus (every 2 years of service) depending on service area.
• Payment of Social Work England registration fee.
• Plus more – view our Children’s Services offer here.

Are you an experienced or Newly Qualified Social Worker looking to work as part of a forward‑thinking, stable and award‑winning team? Join our talent pool today!

We have been recognised by the Social Worker of the Year Awards 2024 in the category of Supportive Social Work Employer and won the Gold Award.

About the Service

Our values inspire our Outstanding Practice Framework, which creates the context for you as a Social Worker in Wandsworth to build relationships with families that bring about change to support children to live at home wherever possible. You will join multi‑agency teams offering the best practice conditions we’ve ever had to achieve the most positive outcomes for children and families. You will have solid and strong leadership in Ana Popovici and Rasheed Pendry, who have an exciting vision to transform our approaches to the most vulnerable in society.

Roles

• Newly Qualified Social Workers (ASYE)
• Social Workers
• Senior Social Workers
• Practice Specialist Social Workers
• Team Managers
• Service Managers

Teams

• Family Help
• Fostering
• Supporting Disabled Children

How We Support You

• You will be part of a small team with manageable caseloads.
• You will have business support for your team who work in collaboration with you.
• You will be part of various working groups within the service and across the partnerships to champion areas of best practice and influence positive outcomes for children and families.
• You will have access to an excellent training offer for Social Workers ranging from Systemic Training, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Informed Practice and various other reflective spaces to promote best practice.
• Access to great transport links.

About you

• You will hold social work qualification with Social Work England membership and have completed your ASYE Year.
• Experience of working across voluntary and statutory agencies with applied knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance.
• An excellent communicator and collaborator who is compassionate and understands the needs of children and young people.
• A 'can do' attitude coupled with creativity, you will be a champion for children and families and support them with hope, self‑esteem and potential.

If you are an experienced Social Worker who meets the above criteria and want to play a central role in providing transformational help for families to achieve positive outcomes for children, Wandsworth is where you need to be, and we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.

About Wandsworth

Our social workers are at the heart of our success, and we’re looking for Social Workers who share and are excited by our vision. Come and be part of our success.

All children and families deserve an outstanding level of practice, let’s work together to provide them with the very best.

Our shared vision and values to improve outcomes for children and families will drive practice. Our outstanding practice framework will support us collectively to do that. We want to apply solutions to complex problems in the simplest way. Having a robust practice framework will enable a shared language, understanding and value base from which we can all work creatively with children and families to achieve the best outcomes for them.

We know that to recruit passionate, dedicated social workers – where there’s simply more demand than the available resource – we must show our appreciation in more tangible ways. That's why we have put together an attractive package for all our social workers.

In return for your skills, knowledge and experience, you will receive an appropriate starting salary and a friendly, kind, positive and supportive working culture.

We also offer:

• Performance related salary progression scheme
• 32 days annual leave to all employees plus bank holidays
• Relocation package for experienced social workers moving to London
• Manageable caseloads
• Agile and flexible working arrangements
• Professional development and CPD opportunities
• Regular reflective supervision and peer group supervision
• Refer a friend scheme
• Welcome payments and retention bonuses for harder to recruit to areas of our services

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

If you have any questions about applying for this role, please get in touch with Simi Sabo on [e-mail]

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