Social Worker (Intervention & Planning)

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

The aim of the Family Service is to ensure that all children and young people in Barnet achieve the best possible outcomes and to enable them to become successful adults, especially our most vulnerable children. They should be supported by high quality, integrated and inclusive services that identify additional support needs early, are accessible, responsive and affordable for the individual child and their family.

Key areas of our work include:

Safeguarding our children through our multi-agency Barnet Children’s Safeguarding Board.
Looking after children who are in care.
Recruiting foster families and potential adoptive parents and placing children in their care.
Making sure that children in need of social care receive the support that they need.
Reducing Domestic Violence and working with perpetrators of Domestic Violence.
Working with Young Offenders and young people who are at risk of getting involved with crime or gangs to reduce youth crime.
Whole family approach to early intervention and prevention, strengthening links with voluntary sector organisations, especially where this ensures that youth and play activities are available.

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 (Intervention & Planning)

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