Hiring a Senior Social Worker to join the MASH Team on a permanent basis.

Location: Barking, London

About this job

Join our dedicated and child-focused MASH team! Our social work practice with children and families is crucial. It can be both incredibly challenging and immensely rewarding. The responsibility of working with families, where your decisions and influence can shape and change lives, is significant. We foster a culture of high support and high challenge, providing our workforce with relevant training and learning opportunities to undertake great practice. We create spaces for learning from others and receiving appropriate challenges to ensure that the decisions made are the right ones for children and families. The relationships you build with families in the MASH will be central to the help we can offer and how they experience and receive this support. We are looking for someone who can contribute to building and improving our team, enhancing the timeliness and quality of our responses to children and families in need of safeguarding. You will be expected to work independently, demonstrate initiative, build good working relationships with partner agencies and be a strong team player. Our Children Social Care workforce is strong and growing. We have navigated recent challenges with agility and resilience and 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 as committed and 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 will need experience of working with children and their families to safeguard and promote their welfare. You will need experience in managing in a fast-paced MASH environment, 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. To apply for this role, you must be eligible to work in the UK already.

About us

This is an exciting time to join the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. We have been on a journey over the last few years, that has seen us transform the council and the way we deliver our services. At the heart of this transformation is our community. 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 31 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