Qualified Children's Social Worker - High Court Team

We are recruiting for the role of Family Court Adviser (Social Worker) in the High Court Team covering London. We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.

Whilst this role is part of a team based from our office in Gray's Inn Road, our teams work flexibly and remotely; your proximity to the office doesn’t always have to be a critical consideration. We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service that promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.

We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.

The High Court team represent the needs and safety of children subject to High Court Proceedings. Such cases are often high profile and/or complex. Should you join us, you’ll use your social work knowledge, skills and experience to understand what the child needs, wants and feels. Then you will advise the court on the best course of action for the child. You’ll do this by providing confident, powerful and succinct written risk and child impact assessment and case analysis and make evidence informed recommendations to the court. You’ll also attend court and be an advocate for the best interests of the child, ensuring their voice is heard.

What We’re Looking For:

Being a Family Court Adviser is very rewarding - but it’s not for everyone. You must be a Social Work England registered social worker who’s organised, resilient and able to work independently. Confident in your abilities, you’ll have demonstrable experience of working with children and families over a sustained period as a Social Worker, potentially supplemented from relevant experience from earlier in your career.

If you wish to speak with a member of the team for more specific information, you can either contact Upekha Welivita from our HR Resourcing team if your query is HR related or to do with the recruitment process, or Louise Whyatt if your questions relate more to the role, providing your contact information and best times/methods to get hold of you.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence, an individual assessment will be completed.