Children’s Social Worker – Locality Service
Employer: Sutton Council
Location: Sutton
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full Time
Grade: 8
Salary: £42,060 – £50,085 (£52,194 unconsolidated maximum) per annum
Leave Entitlement: 28 days
Application Deadline: 31/10/2026
About the Role
Join the Children’s Social Care team as a Social Worker responsible for supporting children and young people through robust assessment, SMART planning and effective intervention. You will work within a restorative practice approach, forming partnerships with families and multi‑agency colleagues to address presenting concerns and underlying difficulties. Your role includes leading and coordinating multi‑agency plans and meetings to ensure children and young people are safe and their holistic needs are met. You will work within the frameworks of Section 17 and Section 47, completing direct work with children to keep them safe, ensuring their voice, wishes and views are central to the planning and delivery of care.
Responsibilities
- Support children and young people through robust assessment, SMART planning and effective intervention to achieve positive outcomes within their families and communities.
- Work within a restorative practice approach to form partnerships with families and multi‑agency colleagues in intervening to address both presenting concerns and underlying difficulties.
- Lead and coordinate multi‑agency partnerships, plans, interventions and meetings to ensure children and young people are safe and their holistic needs are being met.
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified Social Worker with a Social Work degree or recognised qualification, and registered with Social Work England.
- Minimum of 2 years post‑qualifying practice experience, ideally within a UK regulated authority.
- Demonstrated ability to safeguard vulnerable people and deliver statutory functions, local policy and procedures in a timely manner and documented accordingly.
- Commit to one full week in the office every four weeks as part of the duty rota.
- Willingness to travel outside the borough to visit clients as part of caseload.
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, motivated, caring and calm, with a thorough understanding of the frameworks that underpin social work practice. They will bring insight and experience to the team, show initiative, handle a high‑pace environment, deliver consistency, energy and passion, and demonstrate empathy and strong interpersonal skills. The candidate should be able to assess and record a child’s needs using evidence‑based practice to justify decision‑making.
Our Offer
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we offer a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. Benefits include:
- Generous annual leave entitlement (26–32 days plus bank holidays).
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave.
- Two volunteering days per year.
- Flexible working – Smarter Working Scheme (subject to role).
- Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks.
- Access to a learning and development portal.
- Discounts on local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres.
- Interest‑free season ticket loans.
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Electric vehicle leasing scheme.
- Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. All applications are kept confidential and assessed on merit. We are a disability confident employer and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Important – Criminal Records
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
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