Social Worker/ Advanced Social Worker; Young Croydon Croydon, England
Job description
Social Worker/ Advanced Social Worker; Young Croydon
Grade / Salary: Grade 11 - 14; £41,793 - £49,890 + £2,500 retention payment + £5,000 welcome payment
Hours of work: 36 per week / Monday – Friday
Contract type: Permanent
“Have you got the passion and drive to make positive changes in the lives of children and young people?”
The Opportunity
As a Social Worker in the Young Croydon Service, you will be holding a well-managed case load of young people aged 11-18 where the risk is located predominantly outside of the home. You will work with a passionate and dedicated team of social workers and adolescent workers to help reduce risk in the community and support young people to achieve the potential and move away from those who seek to exploit them.
For you, this investment means you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and develop your career as well as make your mark by helping to shape the way we support children and families.
Benefits of Working With Us
- Highly competitive salary & retention payment of £2,500 giving up to £49,890pa
- 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 systemictherapists 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 social workers, who are also:
- Qualified and registered Social Workers / Advanced Social Workers who are Social Work England registered, and have completed your AYSE
- Experienced in making assessments, implementing plans and delivering interventions
- Skilled in managing complex cases and competent in presenting cases in court with demonstrable professionalism and empathy
- Your experience of working in a statutory setting is desirable however not essential
Recruitment and Selection Timeline
Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding 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 an Enhanced Children's DBS check
