We’re celebrating an OUTSTANDING achievement across all areas in our latest Ofsted inspection (December 2024) and we’re looking for social workers to help build on this success.
Ofsted praised our leadership, saying: “Leaders have created an environment where staff feel valued, respected, and supported.”
If you’re looking for a workplace where you can thrive, grow, and truly make a difference, this is your opportunity!
We have new and exciting opportunities to join Achieving for Children as an Advanced Practitioner within the Looked After Children Team based in Kingston.
The Looked After Children service is focused on achieving permanency for children and young people placed in various settings such as kinship placements, foster placements and residential provisions. Our children and young people are transferred from the safeguarding teams to the permanency service when the final order is granted and a plan for permanency is agreed.
The Advanced Practitioner role is developed for those with extensive experience and skills that wish to remain in frontline practice and who may not wish to progress along a management route. Duties of the role will include:
For further information or an informal discussion about this role, please contact the Head of Service Elzanne Smit on elzanne.smit@achievingforchildren.org.uk
We are focused on creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a really wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC you will also have access to:
To be an Advanced Practitioner in the Looked After Children Team you will need to...
Achieving for Children (AfC) is a community interest company (a not-for-profit social enterprise) created in 2014 by the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Richmond to provide their children’s services. In 2017, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead joined AfC as our third owner.
We deliver the full range of children’s services for the three councils. Achieving for Children is a great place to work for those looking for a new challenge. Our offer to you includes:
A role in an organisation that is supportive
An induction offer that starts before you join and includes a welcome event on your first day of employment.
29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after two years and 35 days after four years
Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension)
Hybrid or mobile working and the technology and equipment to facilitate this
Positions available in three of the most desirable boroughs in the south - discrete relocation packages are available for selected roles
Travel assistance package for business use, including car and cycle mileage reimbursement, annual season ticket loan or business Oyster cards
Two days accredited Signs of Safety Foundation Training
12 protected Development Days each year for all staff
Access to a huge range of additional professional development opportunities as part of our regional Social Work Teaching Partnership
On occasions we are in the position to offer some additional financial payments for particularly hard to place roles in selected service areas of AfC.
If you would like to have an informal chat about working with us, please email recruitment@achievingforchildren.org.uk