Social Worker

Social Worker

Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Road, Portslade, BN41 2PG 20/10/2026

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Job details

Contractual hours 31 Basis Flexi Hours

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Social Work - Children

Date posted 25/09/2026

Job reference REQ0001563

Job description

Are you a qualified, trauma informed and anti-oppressive Social Worker who is passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of children and their families? We are looking for a motivated, thoughtful and compassionate Social Worker to join the kinship care team to support us deliver our BHCC kinship care local offer: Kinship in Brighton & Hove

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a specialist, relationship-based service assessing and supporting kinship carers. You will be part of a supportive pod structure where social workers build meaningful relationships with families and use these relationships to promote safety, stability and positive outcomes. This is an exciting time for kinship practice as kinship care is at the heart of the children’s social care reforms.

We are happy to answer any questions you might have, so please do reach out if you’d like to discuss the role further to Zoë Rosenfield, kinship care team pod manager at zoe.rosenfield@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Interviews to be held on 11 th and 12 th November 2026

Contract type: This role is permanent.

About the role

As a social worker in the kinship care team, you will assess prospective kinship carers and prepare reports for court and fostering panels, as well as providing comprehensive support to kinship families. This includes supervision of kinship foster carers, as well as support for carers with legal orders such as Special Guardians. You would also have opportunities to facilitate kinship kids' activities, support groups for carers and deliver workshops and training for kinship carers.

We are looking for an experienced social worker with an interest in trauma informed approaches, therapeutic parenting and has a professional, can-do attitude who would like to join our experienced, supportive, reflective, and friendly team. Our team has a strong learning culture where you will be encouraged with your PDP goals and development and will have opportunities to contribute to the growth and development of the service. Reflective, anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice are key to these roles.

We are seeking candidates who meet the person specification and criteria and who are above all passionate and committed to supporting kinship families provide reparative care to children to enable them to recover from trauma and benefit from stability.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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