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About Us
The vision for our People directorate is Supporting our residents to stay safe and well. At the London Borough of Havering this means delivering high quality relationship based social work that makes a meaningful difference to the lives of children young people and families.
Havering Childrens Services is on a clear and positive improvement journey with significant progress made in strengthening practice leadership and outcomes for children. We are now focused on building on this momentum embedding strong consistent social work practice and continuing to improve the experiences and life chances of the children and young people we serve. To support this next phase of our journey we are recruiting motivated and committed Social Workers across a range of services.
We are seeking Social Workers to join our teams within Assessment Safeguarding Children with Disabilities Children in Care and 16 / Leaving Care. Across all services you will work directly with children young people and families undertaking purposeful assessments planning and interventions that are child centred strengths based and focused on achieving timely positive outcomes.
As a Social Worker in Havering you will be supported to deliver high quality statutory social work in line with legislation statutory guidance and local policy. You will manage a caseload appropriate to your level of experience and service area completing assessments plans and reviews that are analytical reflective and outcome focused. You will build effective relationships with children and families ensuring their voices wishes and lived experiences are central to decision making.
You will work collaboratively with a wide range of multiagency partners including education health housing police and commissioned services to ensure coordinated and effective support. Our approach is rooted in relationship based practice professional curiosity and reflective learning with an emphasis on early help timely intervention and robust safeguarding where needed.
Havering offers a supportive and learning focused environment with manageable caseloads regular supervision strong management oversight and access to continuous professional development through our Social Care Academy. Whether you are looking to consolidate your practice or take the next step in your social work career this is an opportunity to be part of a service that is ambitious for its workforce and determined to keep improving for children and families.
About You
You will be a motivated reflective and committed Social Worker with a passion for improving outcomes for children young people and families. You will be values driven child focused and able to work effectively in a fast paced statutory environment balancing empathy and relationship based practice with clear professional judgement and accountability.
You will be a qualified Social Worker holding a CQSW Diploma in Social Work or equivalent qualification and be registered with Social Work England. You will have relevant post qualifying experience within childrens social care with the ability to apply legislation statutory guidance and local procedures confidently within your day to day practice.
You will have experience of undertaking high quality assessments planning and interventions ensuring that work with children and families is purposeful analytical and focused on achieving sustainable change. You will be able to manage risk appropriately make defensible decisions and escalate concerns where required always keeping childrens safety wellbeing and lived experiences at the centre of your practice.
You will demonstrate strong communication and relationship building skills enabling you to work effectively with children young people and families as well as with a wide range of multiagency partners including education health housing police and commissioned services. You will be confident in contributing to professional discussions meetings and decision making forums relevant to your service area.
As part of Haverings ongoing improvement journey we are looking for Social Workers who are open to learning reflective in their practice and committed to continuous improvement. You will be receptive to feedback supervision and quality assurance processes and motivated to contribute positively to a culture of learning collaboration and shared responsibility.
Non negotiable qualities for this role include:
- A strong commitment to safeguarding children and promoting positive outcomes
- The ability to work with complexity uncertainty and risk in a thoughtful and balanced way
- A child centred strengths based and inclusive approach to practice
- Professional curiosity resilience and accountability
- A willingness to contribute to service improvement and practice development
We value our employees who are the driving force in our improvement journey. We therefore offer a range of benefits including:
We are a family-friendly employer and welcome applications for part-time roles at 0.5 full time equivalent.
4000 annual market supplement payment for Social Workers Advanced Practitioners Team Managers and Service Manager.
A tailored training programme along with development opportunities through our very own dedicated Social Care Academy and corporate offer of 10 days of learning per year.
Access to accredited systemic training and in-house practice application workshops.
A commitment to achieving and maintaining management caseloads.
Generous local government pension scheme and leave entitlement.
Subsidised parking at various council-owned car parks across the borough.
Modern workplace equipped with the latest technology.
A strong corporate health and wellbeing offer discounted gym membership employee assistance programme and much more.
Annual staff recognition schemes (STAR awards and Social Care awards) celebrating and recognising staff commitment and achievement.
We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age disability ethnicity faith gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life and so do our employees.
The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
The London Borough of Havering is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview.
Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Havering Redeployees.
The London Borough of Havering is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In addition the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards).
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Additional Information Next Steps
This is a rolling recruitment campaign for Social Workers across Childrens Services including Assessment Safeguarding Children with Disabilities Children in Care and 16 / Leaving Care.
Applications will be reviewed on a fortnightly basis.
Once your application has been received a member of the Talent Team will contact you to talk through which service area you would like to be considered for. This conversation helps us understand where you feel you would be best placed and how your skills and aspirations align with our services.
We are keen to ensure that candidates are matched to the right service where they can feel supported develop their practice and make the greatest impact for children and young people. Depending on your experience and preferences you may be considered for more than one service area during the recruitment process.
We encourage early applications as appointments will be made throughout the recruitment period.
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