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About the Role
We are recruiting experienced Qualified Social Workers to join our team. You must be registered with SWE and have at least two years post-qualifying experience. Please specify which area/s you are applying for in your supporting statement.
Responsibilities
- Support and monitor children in need and those subject to child protection plans.
- Identify and address risk.
- Work alongside families to ensure children's safety, development, and wellbeing.
- Undertake complex assessments.
- Develop and review plans.
- Undertake direct work with children and young people, ensuring their views and wishes inform their care and support.
- Build strong relationships with children, young people, families, carers, and partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes.
- Provide alternative accommodation for looked after children.
- Support children and young people in care.
- Work closely with families, carers, and partner agencies to ensure safe, stable, and nurturing care.
Requirements
- Must be a fully qualified Social Worker.
- Current Social Work England (SWE) registration.
- At least two years post-qualifying experience.
- Experience working with children, young people, and families with complex needs.
- Experience undertaking complex assessments.
- Experience developing, implementing, and reviewing plans.
- Sound knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, and procedures.
- For CYPDS: Sound working knowledge of legislation and statutory guidance relating to disabled children and young people, including SEND, safeguarding, transition to adulthood, and leaving care, together with relevant adult social care and mental capacity legislation.
- For Children Looked After: Relevant experience includes care planning, permanence, and working with children and young people in care.
- For Family, Friends & Fostering: Relevant experience includes fostering, assessment, support, and permanence arrangements.
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.
Skills
- Identifying and addressing risk
- Relational practice
- Care planning
- Assessment
- Support
- Permanence arrangements
Location
- 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Experienced
- At least two years post-qualifying experience
Education Level
- Fully qualified Social Worker
Salary/Compensations
- £50,790.50 - £54,056
- Travel Allowance & SWE Reimbursement
Benefits
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Interest free loans
- Access to staff networks
- Career development and training
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Reimbursement of the cost of Social Work England Fees
- Payment of a travel allowance equivalent to the cost of a Zone 1 and 2 Travel card
- Comprehensive core social work training
- Opportunities for post-qualifying study
- Support for social workers from managers, including referrals to clinicians at the Tavistock Clinic for counselling
- Camden’s comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Regular social work “health check”
- Listening boxes and surveys
- Wellbeing passport for carers, disabled staff, staff with long-term health conditions, and staff experiencing mental ill health
About the Company
- Camden is changing to make life better for everyone, with residents and communities at the heart of everything they do.
- They are making radical social change a reality so that nobody gets left behind.
- Their Children's Family Help and Safeguarding Service values put children and families at the heart of practice, which is the core of relational practice.
- They use Camden’s Relational Practice Framework, a relationship-based practice informed by the experiences of children, young people, parents, carers, networks, residents, and communities.
- Their staff are central to their success and support improved outcomes for children, their families, and care leavers.
- They have been rated outstanding by Ofsted and continually look to innovate and maintain these standards.
- Camden believes it is one of the best places to develop a career in Children's Family Help and Safeguarding.
- They are working in the heart of London in a vibrant location with brilliant transport links.
- Care experience is recognised as a ‘protected characteristic’ by Camden.
- Camden Children’s Safeguarding and Social Work Learning Academy provides a framework for workforce development and their learning and development programme.
- Opportunity to progress to an Advanced Social Worker Role.
- Strong values and ethos informed by their Relational Practice Framework.
Equal Opportunity
- At Camden, they want every colleague to feel they belong and can thrive.
- They welcome applications from all parts of our community, and particularly encourage people from Black, Asian and Other Ethnic Heritage communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and neurodiverse people, survivors of domestic abuse, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or with care experience.
- They know that different voices and perspectives make them stronger, and they are committed to providing the support, adjustments, and flexibility people need to succeed.
- Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone.
- This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
- Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.