Social Worker / Senior Social Worker / Advanced Social Worker – Social Work with Families (SWwF)
Salary: Grade 11-14 (£46,968-£55,323) depending on experience
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Welcome Payment – £5,000
Retention Payment – £2,500
Hybrid working
Job Purpose
We would welcome you to come and work in a vibrant and culturally diverse community, that supports our social work staff to deliver excellence in their practice. We want Social Workers to join us that are motivated to strengthen families, putting children at the centre of everything that we do. Social Work with Families brings together people working for children who are subject to child protection plans, children in need, and Children Looked After. Children who may be in the Public Law Outline process, or Court proceedings. We work in a small Locality service, with your Team Manager, Business Support Officer and colleagues who will support you to use your skills and knowledge to create the best possible outcomes for children and families in Croydon. The London Borough of Croydon is innovative from the work environment, computer systems to our practice. It’s a great place to work as a social work. Croydon has a growing population which benefits from good transportation systems and wonderful restaurants. It’s right time to be joining us; we are embedding systemic practice and the investment that we have received is enabling Social Work with Families to have a manageable caseload, business support integrated in our structure and unqualified practitioners supporting child in need, and social workers to do the direct work with children. This is an opportunity to grow your skills; be a part of a supportive community that will develop your career, as well as, make a difference in shaping the way we support children and families.
Essential Requirements
- Qualified social workers, Social Work England Registered, completed ASYE and can demonstrate skills, resilience and experience in: Making relationships to create change
- Identifying and working with families’ strengths.
- Managing complex cases.
- Skilled in managing complex families and competent in representing children in court demonstrating empathy and maintaining professionalism.
- Experience of working in a statutory setting is desirable, however not essential.
- Working directly with children, young people and their families evidencing multi-agency partnerships with a robust understanding of thresholds of need.
- Excellent analytical and writing skills and the ability to incorporate our systemic practice model which builds on families’ strengths with a focus on protective factors.
- Effective time management skills to deliver within expected timeframes.
To view the Social Worker Grade 11-12 role profile, please click here.
To view the Advanced Social Worker Grade 14 role profile, please click here.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role. Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
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