Social Worker (Duty & Assessment)

Posted 10th Jan, 2025

Location

Barnet

Salary/rate

£51,802 – £64,624

Hours

Full-time

Working arrangements

Blended

Contract type

Permanent

Closing date

22nd Jan, 2025

About the role

In Barnet we are looking for practitioners who are reflective, proactive, resilient and able to deliver purposeful social work to make a positive difference with our families and communities. Whether you are newly qualified worker or a seasoned practitioner we don’t expect you to be able to support our children and families effectively without us supporting you. This is a place where you’re given time and support to develop yourself and your practice because our approach is different. Putting children at the centre of all we do means growing and developing you is, also, at the centre of what we do. We ensure that you have access to excellent training opportunities and offer reflexive and meaningful individual and group supervision opportunities to develop your expertise and confidence.

We are able to provide:

Access to systemic training.
Proactive Practice and Learning Managers who are able to support responsive and co-produced training sessions to meet topical and emerging themes in practice.
An integrated child and family clinical service with a range of mental health professionals to support your work.
Manageable caseloads within small teams.
Work-life balance options may include flexitime, job-share, homeworking.

About you

You will have:

In depth knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework and polices in relation to safeguarding children
Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly in writing assessments and plans for young people
Proven experience in demonstrating your impact on families in achieving positive outcomes for children and influence the professional networks that you work with.
Innovative and positive engagement with children and families in their assessments and plans and a passion for delivery of high quality services and interventions to vulnerable children in partnership with a wide range of agencies.

Regrettably we cannot accept applications from those who do not hold recognised social work qualifications.

About Barnet

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

Social Worker (Duty & Assessment)

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