Are you?
Passionate about working with and safeguarding Adolescents and young people at risk in the community
Committed to making a visible difference to the lives of Ealing’s children and their families
Able to work creatively with adolescents and their families, informed by your skills and experience to deliver the highest standards of professional practice.
A qualified, Social Work England registered social worker with post qualification experience?
If so, we have the ideal role for you!
An opportunity has arisen in the MAST Adolescent service to recruit a knowledgeable and enthusiastic social worker/senior social worker to work within our multi-disciplinary team of social workers, family practitioners, youth workers and psychologists.
MAST Adolescent focuses primarily on children who experience harm outside of their family homes. We are adopting a Contextual Safeguarding Approach, which we see as key to addressing many of the risk our young people potentially face including Child Sexual Exploitation, Criminal Exploitation, Serious Youth Violence, Gangs, Missing, Radicalisation and online/social media abuse.
You will work within MAST Adolescent for children, young people and their families supporting a model of direct work within timely, planned interventions. You will be required to work closely and develop good working relationships with key partner agencies and other teams within social care.
We use our Brighter Futures model (which is trauma informed and relationship based) to address extra-familial risk through the lens of safeguarding, to mitigate harm, promote safety and support children and young people to achieve their full potential.
In this role your work will follow statutory child protection procedures and frameworks to Assess, Plan, Implement and Review interventions with young people and their families.
We are looking for social workers who are confident in their practice, passionate about working with adolescents and hold strong assessment and planning skills, being able to come alongside families within their contexts to assess, plan, implement and review interventions confidently and skilfully.
The role supports a combination of working from home and office-based working.
What you will need:
Social Work England Registration
You will also need a passion for working with adolescents and their families as well as having an enthusiastic and creative work ethic.
More than 360,000 people call Ealing home. Our seven towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell Northolt, Perivale and Southall - are diverse, vibrant and lively communities where over 170 languages are spoken. We will enable you to do the work you care deeply about, and our aim is to deliver the infrastructure that allows that to happen.
Ealing is a great place to come and develop your career. You will be supported in this by colleagues and managers who will provide you with the opportunities to grow, gain experience, confidence and become a reflective practitioner.
Ealing is a richly diverse borough and we benefit from close ties to our communities which enriches our work and continually improves our offer. We are alive to the pressures many of our families are facing and work creatively with families and partners to bring about changes which makes the work that much more energising.
We recognise that to recruit and retain the very best social workers and social care practitioners, we need to bring together all our learning and development opportunities into one place. That’s why we have launched the Ealing Social Care Academy. The academy helps our team connect, collaborate, and engage creatively with internal and external partners and service users.
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More directly we can offer you:
Manageable caseloads
Clear career progression pathways
Opportunities to develop and experience different areas of work
Competitive remuneration packages
A hybrid approach to working that increases your work / life balance
If you want to find out about this opportunity, please contact our Recruitment lead, Caroline Horsley at: HorsleyC@ealing.gov.uk