Barking & Dagenham is committed to supporting a more resilient community through prevention, early intervention and support, to better support Adults and Children across all our services. We are currently recruiting for a qualified senior social worker who is passionate about Children’s social work to join our Corporate Parenting team. We are looking for child and family focused Social workers across our children’s services. If you are ready for a new challenge Barking and Dagenham is a unique borough with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The Corporate Parenting team aims to safeguard and promote young people to support them to throughout their journey in care and to have successful independent lives into adulthood. Our teams manage complex cases and organise plans to meet the needs of children and young people through care plans and pathway plans. Corporate Parenting Social Workers are confident about working with partners within and outside of the Council to deliver effective and efficient services. We take responsibility for enabling contact arrangements and ensuring that health assessments and personal education plans are in place.
Throughout, we aim to engage successfully with the children and young people and to make sure that their voices are heard. Working for us we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. Promoting creativity is at the heart of our practice. Social Workers are encouraged to share ideas, bring about positive change and strive to continuously improve outcomes for our vulnerable children and young people.
You are a passionate, caring and dedicated Social Worker; a good communicator who will have the ability to work with a broad range of professionals, including working respectfully with children, young people and their families. You are able to make evidenced based decisions and seek management advice when necessary. You are able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with children, young people, their families and other professionals. In return, we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. We believe that our training, development and support is among the best in London.
We are driving down caseloads, raising creativity, and working to create a balance of visits with home and office working using excellent IT and mobile working technology. As part of our values based recruitment, we are looking for candidates to respond to the five council DRIVE Values – Deliver, Respond, Inspire, Value and Engage. For this role we are particularly looking for candidates that can Respond, Value and Engage as per the JDPS.
We are putting the heart back into social work, supported by our relational practice model where we ensure the child’s lived experience takes centre stage.
Ours is a culture of high support, high expectations and fair challenge. We need committed individuals to support us in the delivery of these aims and to become part of our team to make a difference to our children and families.
In return we offer a competitive pay package, £2.5k Recruitment and £2.5k Retention Allowance, generous pension and relocation package, annual leave up to 31 days, excellent opportunities for career progression, whether you want to broaden your experience as a social worker or step into management, investment in your learning and development as well as a commitment to your wellbeing. We are currently reviewing our pay and benefits offer. The details in this advert reflect the offer that is in place at the time of this recruitment campaign.