The Royal Borough of Greenwich is an exciting and fulfilling place to work.  Our key focus in Children’s Services is to ensure we provide excellent services for all our children, young people and their families.
We are launching pioneering emotional wellbeing hubs in eight of our secondary schools.  These hubs will give children of all backgrounds access to vital support for their wellbeing by addressing the root causes of persistent absence and non-attendance in school, especially where there are unmet emotional needs, caring responsibilities or contextual safeguarding issues.  The hubs will act as a bridge between school, home and wider partnership agencies/services, and will work directly with the young person as well as providing comprehensive and intensive support to their wider family to ensure positive change is sustained.
The Practitioner role is a varied one and as well as the delivery of impactful and relational practice, will also include providing support to primary and secondary schools through consultation, role-modelling and the delivery of professional development centred around our ‘Practice Framework’, which is rooted in Systemic Practice and Compassion Focussed approaches, and is adopted across Children’s Services in Royal Greenwich.  As a senior member of the unit, you will support the Practice Leader in ensuring that the unit delivers the best practice to our children, young people and families. This will include leading systemic case discussions and providing support and direction to the Unit’s Youth & Family Support Worker.
The Role
As a Practitioner, you will be working in Royal Greenwich secondary schools, supporting our children and their families.  You must be able to develop supportive and highly-effective relationships with children and their families.
You will work alongside a Practice Leader and a Systemic Practitioner, who will help embed systemic and therapeutic concepts into the work of the unit, as well as a Youth & Family Support Worker. Together, you will look at barriers and issues within children and families’ lives, their strengths and needs, set goals and help develop and deliver bespoke, creative, and evidence-based interventions drawn from collaborative assessments; utilising the extensive and wide-ranging experience from across the unit.
These roles are an opportunity to make a real difference. 
You will have:
Working for Royal Greenwich
Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from Crossrail to the Elizabeth line to the Uber boat, we’re one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around.
You will find we pride ourselves on having an innovative learning culture dedicated to improving outcomes for children, young people, care leavers and their families.
With excellent training and great benefits, Royal Greenwich is the ideal place to progress your career.  Our generous benefits package includes:
Make a difference to our children’s futures, your future and ours.  Apply today.
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a vibrant area of Southeast London with a rich history and diverse culture. The town of Greenwich itself is a UNESCO world heritage site that is home to the Prime Meridian Line, Royal Observatory, and the Cutty Sark ship. In 2012, the borough was named as the first new Royal Borough for more than 80 years. We are looking to recruit social workers, who are registered with Social Work England, to join our stable and committed Children’s Services workforce. Discover more in our video below.
With excellent training and great benefits, Royal Greenwich is the ideal place to progress your social worker career. Our generous benefits package includes:
A senior leadership team who take time to know front-line staff, listen to their views and celebrate excellent work.
Small teams allowing more direct support and supervision time from your Team Leader
An innovative and aspirational Practice Academy dedicated to providing creative learning solutions and a comprehensive offer to support you to achieve your career ambitions including bursaries to undertake systemic training
Access to Research in Practice website, training and resources and new initiatives
Rota Days equating (FTE) to an additional 10 days off per year
Travel costs worth £1k+, OR essential car user car parking (close to the workplace).
Royal Greenwich Keyworker housing (after being employed for six months, subject to application and meeting criteria).
Excellent pension scheme (LGPS).
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Childcare vouchers.
Greenwich One Card gives you access to a wide range of discounts on products and services at participating local businesses, shops, cafes and restaurants. Discounted gym membership.
Opportunities to join cross-sectional staff Task and Finish groups to improve practice and procedures.
We have an ongoing commitment to supporting staff and ensuring equality and diversity in the workplace.
Staff networks and forums to support and encourage networking between staff with shared interests.
Make a difference to our children’s futures, your future and ours.