Social Worker/ Advanced Social Worker; Family Assessment Service – Grade 11 – 14 (£44,091 – £52,116))

Job title:

Social Worker/ Advanced Social Worker; Family Assessment Service – Grade 11 – 14 (£44,091 – £52,116))

Company

Croydon Council

Job description

Grade / Salary: Grade 11 – 14; £44,091 – £52,116 + £5,000 welcome payment + £2,500 retention payment

Job Purpose

We expect children and families in Croydon to receive outstanding services from our social work staff. We want our staff to have high expectations and high challenge of their practice and each other. It’s an exciting time to be joining us. To meet the changing needs of our children and families we have invested in creating the conditions for social work to flourish. We have a number of exciting opportunities for Social Workers to join our Croydon.

The Family Assessment Service receives cases from our Front Door (Single Point of Contact – SPOC). Social Workers carry out Child and Family Assessments, create family plans and where appropriate work with families to support the intervention of agreed plans (brief intervention). Social Workers carry out S47 Child Protection Enquiries, work with a range of partner agencies to ensure children and young people are supported and safeguarded.

Croydon has five teams within the Family Assessment Service based in our modern offices in Croydon, come and join us. We are committed to improving the lives of children and young people and their families across the Borough. We offer great office accommodation and facilities in the centre of Croydon with excellent public transport links.

Benefits of Working With Us

• Highly competitive salary & retention payment of £2,500 giving up to £52,390pa
• Welcome Payment of £5,000
• A pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%
• 31 days annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays
• Accredited Systemic Practice training
• A range of CPD opportunities
• Investment into your staff well-being
• Good management support for practitioners, regular supervision, group supervision led by systemic therapists and access to a clinical therapist to support your work directly.
• Hybrid working policy enabling work from home and flexible working approaches to support your work-life balance where the role allows plus a high-quality office base from where direct work is delivered from.

Why Join Us

In Croydon, our Children’s Services has an established Systemic Practice model, experienced leaders, and high support for practitioners. Croydon people and staff are diverse, and we celebrate difference through focus on anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice. We are committed to delivering excellent social work practice and services to our children and families.

As well as this we also offer the following:

• Our teams consist of experienced Social Workers at various levels
• Join a highly diverse workforce
• Reflective supervision is actively promoted and supported.
• The ethos at Croydon is very much about working together to make positive change
• Caseloads of Social Workers are very manageable enabling managers to know children well & ensure high standards of practice
• You will join an established team who can help you settle in and offer their expertise

About You

We are looking for confident Qualified social workers, that are Social Work England Registered and that have completed their ASYE and who can demonstrate their skills, resilience and experience in;

• Making relationships to create change
• Identifying and working with our families’ strengths.
• Managing complex cases
• Working with families and children to produce Child and Family assessments
• Working directly with children, young people and their families evidencing multi-agency partnerships with a robust understanding of thresholds of need.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with families and referrers from all partner agencies
• Excellent analytical and writing skills and the ability to incorporate our systemic practice model which builds on families’ strengths with a focus on protective factors.
• Effective time management skills to deliver within expected timeframes.

This is a rolling advert so applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a fortnightly basis.

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Equal opportunities statement

Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check.

Additional Information

Expected salary

£44091 – 52116 per year

Location

Croydon, Greater London

Job date

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:41:48 GMT

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