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SalaryJob Summary:
Salary range: £41,967 - £50,088 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 2nd June 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 10th June 2024
About Us:
You’ll have time to build your relationship with each family which will stay stable and strong
In Kensington and Chelsea, we look after a diverse population, which includes people living in some of the nation’s most affluent and most deprived wards. We have high aspirations for all our Children and young people and have shaped our social work services to deliver the best for them. Rated as outstanding by Ofsted, we’re organised in locality teams, meaning no arguments about transition points. We also maintain strong links with multi-agency partners while ensuring Children and Families remain with the same Social Worker from referral through to closure. With a lower-than-average caseload, high levels of management support and comprehensive training, we offer Social Workers genuine professional satisfaction.
“RBKC Social Workers are friendly, and managers are open to doing things differently and supporting relationship-based practice. I’d highly recommend RBKC as a place to work.” - RBKC Social Worker
What Young People say:
(about their Social Worker) “She always responds as soon as she can. She always gives good feedback.”
The Role:
We want you to feel supported and confident to deliver at the highest standards and offer a range of training and development opportunities.
Whatever your level of experience in Children’s’ Social Work, you will benefit significantly from the support, experience and learning we offer including:
- a manageable caseload of no more than ten families
- an established management team with an ‘open door’ policy who care and listen
- a locality model
- encouragement to work autonomously
- access to the skills of a range of multidisciplinary partners
- support of a team family therapist or clinician
- regular supervision and appraisals
- accredited systemic training programme.
Children’s Services has the advantage of a stable, experienced, approachable and creative group of leaders. We are committed to your career development and provide a number of different pathways for professional progression, including opportunities to work in different services across the borough. Whether your ambitions lie in management or advanced specialist practice, we can help you achieve them.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
A qualified and registered Social Worker, you’ll be an excellent communicator who is calm under pressure. Adept at multi-tasking, you’ll be both well organised and flexible in adapting to changing situations.
You will join a friendly team that works in close collaboration to produce good outcomes for Children and young people. As a team, we are committed to a healthy work-life balance. The team structure also enables progression, with clear progression opportunities for those who want to develop as a practitioner or manager.
In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, membership of the Local Government pension scheme, Travel Allowance Scheme for Zone 1 and 2, reimbursement of Social Work England fees, generous annual leave plus bank holidays and discounts for many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments.
In addition, we offer an annual leave purchase scheme – you can purchase up to 5 days annual leave per annum at 90% of the actual cost. The Council has a staff contributory private healthcare scheme, open to all staff and it also offers a Dental Insurance Plan.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk
