Social Worker - Family Support & Safeguarding

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 Family Support & Safeguarding 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.

Our teams manage complex cases and organise plans to meet the needs of children and young people through care plans and pathway plans. Safeguarding Social Workers are confident about working with partners within and outside of the Council to deliver effective and efficient services. Working with 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.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including a Disclosure check. The postholder will need to have a social work degree and hold a current SWE (Formerly HCPC) registration.

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.

We are putting the heart back into social work, supported by our relational practice model, we ensure the child’s lived experience takes Centre stage. 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, generous pension, annual leave up to 30 days, opportunities for flexible working, investment in your learning and development as well as a commitment to your wellbeing. The council supports a model of flexible working, providing the necessary IT so staff can work from any location that meets the needs of the vulnerable people we support. Our borough is vibrant and diverse, and this is something we are proud of. We value the diversity of people who live, work and visit Barking and Dagenham and it is our vision is to create a place where people understand, respect and celebrate each other’s differences. We offer a £2,500 recruitment allowance with your first salary and up to £2,500 annual retention payment thereafter, subject to conditions.

If you would like a confidential discussion about this post, then please contact socialcarerecruitment@lbbd.gov.uk and we will get back to you within 48 hours.