Social Workers in Children in Care (CiC) need to be responsible for the delivery of a high quality support service to children and their families who are engaged within the Children in Care service and under the Council's statutory obligations as a Corporate Parent.
Social Workers in Children in Care utilise our Circles of Support practice model - working restoratively with children and young people, using systemic tools and ideas and drive the development of a team culture where good practice can flourish to the benefit of children and their families.
Working as a Children in Care Social Worker at Newham provides a unique development opportunity as the service handles the majority of court work relating care proceedings. You will be fully supported in this by senior colleagues, an Assistant Team Manager in addition to a Team Manager (in each team), Practice Development Social Workers, a comprehensive CP Chair service and our Clinical Team consisting of experienced qualified Family Therapists.
You are a qualified social worker who has completed their ASYE, and are registered with Social Work England.
We welcome applications from social workers of varying experience levels; though we do expect applicants to have completed their ASYE and have gained some experience within in the team/service that they are applying for.
We’re looking for social workers who have a genuine interest in a restorative, relationship based practice model drawing on systemic thinking to inform your approach to building effective relationships with children, young people and their families.
We want to bring in energetic, empathetic social workers that are keen to reach positive outcomes for children and families whilst taking full advantage of the learning, support and personal development that Newham offers. We’re big on career development and the rapid pace of our improvement has made internal progression a realistic possibility for high performers – get in touch for more information on our career pathway.
We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.
We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we always try to develop talent in-house. We promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 alone, and have put more than 47 practitioners through further education since 2020. We value your development and at Newham career progression is a reality for many of our colleagues.
We understand that social work can be a challenging yet ultimately very rewarding profession that makes demands of you personally and professionally. In Newham we value your wellbeing and we aim to ensure that you have a better work/life balance through a remote working offer when you are not visiting children and families, a modern office space for when you’re on site, a flexible working policy where all requests are considered, and a clinical offer to support you to do your best work.
We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work:
