Social Worker / Advanced Social Worker – Children with Disabilities Service – Croydon Council
Salary: Grade 11-14 (£45,510 - £53,607)
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Retention Payment – £2,500
Hybrid working
Job Purpose
We expect children and families in Croydon to receive outstanding services from our social work staff. We want our staff to have high expectations and high challenge of their practice and each other. It’s an exciting time to be joining us. To meet the changing needs of our children and families we have invested in creating the conditions for social work to flourish. We have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join Croydon in our Children with Disabilities Service. There has never been a greater focus on children’s services in Croydon than right now, making it an exciting place to take the next step in your social work career. Our statutory service for children and young people with disabilities serve 1200 residents and we need your passion and commitment as a social worker. We are seeking Social Workers who genuinely care, and who want nothing but the best outcomes for Croydon’s children and their families. We are committed to doing things differently, taking into account current research and best practice, and are looking for people who want to be part of this journey. We are looking for a social worker who is capable of working with professionalism and empathy in equal amounts and can demonstrate that they are skilled in managing complex cases, preferably with disabled children (having working experience with children with disabilities is not essential). Your experience of working in a statutory setting will allow you to operate with confidence and emotional intelligence – making effective assessments, implementing plans, delivering interventions and undertaking court work where required.
Essential Requirements
We are looking for confident Qualified social workers, that are Social Work England Registered and that have completed their ASYE and who can demonstrate their skills, resilience and experience in:
Making relationships to create change.
Identifying and working with our families’ strengths.
Managing complex cases.
Working with families and children with disabilities.
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.
Home to 94,000 children, Croydon is a truly unique place to practice social work. We are a borough with big ambition, grit, and determination. Children's social care was judged ‘good’ in our last Ofsted inspection.
Our systemic practice framework places emphasis on relationships as key to supporting change for families. We make sense of the world through relationships, focusing on the whole family system and thinking about our own part in that too – what we bring, our own family stories and beliefs, how we use ourselves in the work that we do. Our practice model is all about collaboration - with our families, networks and partners; being open to challenge and ensuring our practitioners are highly trained in a variety of intervention approaches. Our established clinical service will support you to grow your own systemic practice within the service, providing accredited training, co-working and direct work with families.
For an informal chat about working in Croydon, contact Agata Stolowska at agata.stolowska@croydon.gov.uk