Life Story Practitioner - Social Worker Assistant

About Haringey Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents. About the Role We are looking for an individual who is passionate about working with children, young people of all ages, parents, carers and professional and has skills in play. You need to have skills at communicating on different levels and has a solid understanding in child development and the impacts of trauma. We need someone to assist the social workers to undertake direct and indirect life story work and promote the identity work for all our children who are looked after, across the Haringey Children’s Services. If applying you need to be able to work well within a team and with wider professionals from other service areas, health and education.  Providing guidance and support but also gathering information for the life story collaboration. Working for Haringey At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact  About You IT skills and good English skills are essential in order to develop the life story books and letters following the direct intervention. Qualifications or experience in working with Children is essential; knowledge of child development and trauma and safeguarding experience. About the Team We are a stable service of three teams, each with one senior and four social workers, the post whilst sitting in one team, requires work across all three teams.   We are a service who is passionate about long-term work with and meeting the needs of children and young people