The Intervention team works alongside our ECIRS team. ECIRS is the single point of entry ‘front door’ for all enquiries/referrals from professionals and the public regarding the welfare or safety of a child or young person.
The Intervention team aims to offer a timely response to children, young people and families who may benefit from brief intervention (rather than longer-term involvement from other statutory teams or the SAFE service) after a referral has been made to ECIRS. Children and families will be seen within days of receipt of the referral. The intervention team will work up to 25 days with children and families using our Brighter Futures model as our practice tool, which is value based.
The Intervention Team works with children and families on a consent basis and offers a highly collaborative approach, involving them and partner agencies in setting plans for the brief intervention. Children and young people’s voices are integral to all aspects of the work.
In Ealing’s Children’s Services our Brighter Futures practice model is informed by our values and brings together key ideas from relationship and trauma-informed research, theory and practice. We have a strong focus on relationships and purposeful partnership in our work. We aim to build empathic, respectful, and trusting relationships with each other and with the children and families we support to bring about positive change.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for ambitious, professional, conscientious social workers with differing levels of experience, to join our social care teams. You will have good communication skills and a good understanding of children and young people’s needs.
In Ealing we place a high level of importance on the development of our managers and leaders as we think this is key to improving outcomes for Children and Young people. Ealing Council is proud of having a stable permanent leadership team. This is built on by our innovative managers/leaders practice development programme which ensures effective career progression and provides safety and confidence in our social work teams.
You will need:
Applications are welcome from social workers who have completed their ASYE year through to senior social workers, including experienced international social workers. We are happy to offer sponsorship to the right candidate.
Are you?
More than 360,000 people call Ealing home. Our seven towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell Northolt, Perivale and Southall - are diverse, vibrant and lively communities where over 170 languages are spoken. We will enable you to do the work you care deeply about, and our aim is to deliver the infrastructure that allows that to happen.
Ealing is a great place to come and develop your career. You will be supported in this by colleagues and managers who will provide you with the opportunities to grow, gain experience, confidence and become a reflective practitioner.
Ealing is a richly diverse borough and we benefit from close ties to our communities which enriches our work and continually improves our offer. We are alive to the pressures many of our families are facing and work creatively with families and partners to bring about changes which makes the work that much more energising.
We recognise that to recruit and retain the very best social workers and social care practitioners, we need to bring together all our learning and development opportunities into one place. That’s why we have launched the Ealing Social Care Academy. The academy helps our team connect, collaborate, and engage creatively with internal and external partners and service users.
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More directly we can offer you:
Manageable caseloads
Clear career progression pathways
Opportunities to develop and experience different areas of work
Competitive remuneration packages
A hybrid approach to working that increases your work / life balance
If you want to find out about this opportunity, please contact our Recruitment lead, Caroline Horsley at: HorsleyC@ealing.gov.uk