Most social work intervention takes place during normal office hours, but children need support to be available around the clock. Barnet’s ‘Out of Hours Social Work’ Team enables us to provide a 24-hour social work response to children in need of help and protection.
The Out of Hours Social Work Team works alongside our Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub and extends operating hours from 5pm to 9am Monday to Sunday, providing 24-hour cover at weekends and public holidays. Working on a rolling rota, the roles are home-based, although occasional in-person working may be required. Core hours will be 5pm – 12am with an on-call supplement 12am – 9am, plus overtime.
The Out of Hours Service is supported by a bank of on-call social workers, and at weekends family support/youth workers are also available to provide support.
You will have:
Barnet - in the north-west of London - is the second largest borough by population and home to over 389,000 people.
With 30 flourishing town centres and over 200 family-friendly parks, nature reserves and greenspaces, Barnet is a brilliant place to live, study, work, and raise a family.
If you think working in Barnet might be for you, then we would love to hear from you. You can arrange to come for a pre-interview visit or call us for an informal chat. You can also find out more about working in Barnet by watching the video below.
We provide members of our children’s services workforce with:
Free Parking
Competitive renumeration packages (including Barnet Flex – talk to us about this)
Access to Pool Cars/Parking Permits
30 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
Work-life balance options may include flexi-time, job-share, homeworking, part-time
Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
Excellent training and development opportunities
Interest-free season travel ticket loan
Cycle to Work Scheme
Relocation package of up to £8,000
Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
Childcare voucher scheme, salary sacrifice scheme
Corporate rates for membership of Better Leisure
Occupational Health advice/Health and Wellbeing Programme
Employee Assistance Programme
Modern purpose built offices based in the heart of our Community at Colindale, 5 minutes walk from the underground station.
If you have any questions about applying for roles within children's social care at Barnet please contact our recruitment team FS.Recruitment@Barnet.gov.uk