We are currently recruiting for qualified social workers across Children’s services, and have vacancies for permanent social workers to join us in the following areas:
CwD/Children with SEND
Contextual Safeguarding/Edge of Care/Exploitation
Assessment*
Intervention (longer term)**
No Recourse to Public Funds team candidates need experience of NRPF
MASH candidates need MASH/front door experience
Children in Care/LAC
Please specify which team you are interested in applying for in your CV/application.
We are looking for social workers who have completed their ASYE year and ideally have picked up further experience in the team/service they are applying for. Experience requirements can vary from team to team due to the existing experience levels of our current social workers.
We’re looking for social workers who have a genuine interest in a restorative, relationship based practice model drawing on systemic thinking to inform your approach to building effective relationships with children, young people and their families.
We want to work with energetic, empathetic social workers that are keen to reach positive outcomes for children and families whilst taking full advantage of the learning, support and personal development that Newham offers. We’re big on career development and the rapid pace of our improvement has made internal progression a realistic possibility for high performers – get in touch for more information on our career pathway.
If you have a question relating to any of our teams or services please get in touch via email.
*Note on Assessment Service - Assessment at Newham have weekly debriefs and duty is once every 6 weeks.
**Note on Intervention - Although there is involvement in proceedings, court work has largely been moved from Intervention to our Children in Care service so that our Intervention teams can focus on direct work with families and improved outcomes for children and young people.
We want to work with energetic, empathetic social workers that are keen to reach positive outcomes for children and families whilst taking full advantage of the learning, support and personal development that Newham offers. We’re big on career development and the rapid pace of our improvement has made internal progression a realistic possibility for high performers – get in touch for more information on our career pathway.
We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.
We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we always try to develop talent in-house. We promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 alone, and have put more than 47 practitioners through further education since 2020. We value your development and at Newham career progression is a reality for many of our colleagues.
We understand that social work can be a challenging yet ultimately very rewarding profession that makes demands of you personally and professionally. In Newham we value your wellbeing and we aim to ensure that you have a better work/life balance through a remote working offer when you are not visiting children and families, a modern office space for when you’re on site, a flexible working policy where all requests are considered, and a clinical offer to support you to do your best work.
We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work:
