Social Worker Mash

About this job

Barking & Dagenham is committed to supporting a more resilient community through prevention, early intervention and support, to better support Adults and Children across all our services. We are currently recruiting for a qualified senior Social Worker who is passionate about Children’s social work to join our MASH team. We are looking for child and family focused Social Workers across our children’s services. If you are ready for a new challenge Barking and Dagenham is a unique borough with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. Barking and Dagenham believe working to achieve better outcomes for children and families through holistic approach to Children Services. Our MASH in LBBD is the Front Door for referrals into Children’s Social Care. We are a co-located service with partners from the Police, Health, Education, IDVA Services and Housing. Our social work practice with children and families is so important. It can be both incredibly challenging and hugely rewarding. The responsibility of working with families where the decisions you make and the power of your influence has the ability to shape and change lives, can be difficult. Our culture of high support, high challenge provides our workforce with relevant training and learning to undertake great practice and creates spaces for them to learn from others and receive appropriate challenge to help ensure that the decisions they make are the right ones for children and families. The relationship you will build with families in the MASH will be central to the help we can offer and how they will experience and receive this. You will be expected to work independently and demonstrate initiative as well as being a strong team player. Our Children Social Care workforce is strong and growing, we have navigated the recent challenges with agility and resilience, and we are now entering our next phase of improvements. It is an exciting time to join the service as many initiatives and opportunities are being offered to staff who are committed and as passionate as we are.

Special requirements for this post

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including a Disclosure check. You will have completed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) and hold a recognised Social Work qualification and a current Social Work England Registration.

About you

You are experienced in managing in a fast-paced environment such as MASH, be an analytical and curious practitioner who is committed to embrace our relational approach. We are looking for conscientious and compassionate people to grow our already established workforce. You are able to make evidenced based decisions and seek management advice when necessary. You are able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with children, young people, their families as well as professionals. In return, we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. We believe that our training, development and support is among the best in London. We balance working from home and office using excellent IT and mobile working technology.

About us

This is an exciting time to join the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. We are putting the heart back into social work, supported by our relational practice model. We ensure the child’s lived experience takes centre stage. We need committed individuals to support us in the delivery of these aims and to become part of our team to make a difference to our children and families. In return we offer a competitive pay package, £2.5k recruitment and retention allowance, generous pension and relocation package, annual leave up to 30 days, investment in your learning and development as well as a commitment to your wellbeing. We work in a dispersed way, offering flexible working arrangements. If you would like a confidential discussion about this post and other Social Work posts we are advertising, then please contact socialcarerecruitment@lbbd.gov.uk and we will get back to you within 48 hours. How to Apply To apply, please complete the Application From and upload your CV (name anonymised) by 07/04/2024. It is essential that you complete the application form and attach your CV (name anonymised), addressing how you meet the criteria and drive values indicated in the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy. The criteria and qualities/drive values are marked as AF1-6 and AFV1-3 respectively. One borough; one community; London’s growth opportunity