Social Worker - Safeguarding and Care Planning

London, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Social Worker (Safeguarding and Care Planning)

Focusing on the child, not forgetting you.

Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “outstanding”.

You can view the latest report here.

Location : Bromley Civic Centre/flexible working

Salary : up to £46,578.00 per annum (dependent on experience)

In addition, you will receive £1500 annual retention payment,

£1000 Golden Hello and other excellent benefits including a lease car

Bromley are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Social Workers to join us on our journey to excellence.

Bromley is committed to making children and young people in the Borough its top priority. The Safeguarding and Care Planning Service works in partnership with other agencies such as Police, Health and Education, and aims to ensure children grow up with the best life chances and receive safe and consistent care.

The team works on the premise that children should be raised within their families wherever possible providing it is safe for them. We recognise that unfortunately some families struggle to care and/or consistently meet the needs of their children and need our support. The team works with children who are subject to Child in Need Plans and Child Protection Plans, striving to work with their family to create and promote the enabling environment where children can thrive and reach their full potential.

Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies. This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people. To read more about our REAL Values and Behaviours, please click here: Values and Behaviours.pdf

Our Safeguarding and Care Planning Service consists of 10 Safeguarding Teams; 5 in the East and 5 in the West of the borough.

You will be joining an ambitious service with strong leadership and clear lines of support. As part of the Bromley Promise there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us.

We are confident that with your support, we will continue to provide high quality social care services to our children in Bromley as set out in our improvement and transformation plan. In return we ask that you bring your passion, dedication and skills to us.

The Bromley Promise

• Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker
• Dedicated time for reflective supervision
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days
• Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers
• Two-week protected induction programme
• Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker
• Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team
  
  

To view the JD and Person Specification please click here .

If you are interested in applying for this post, within the Personal Statement section of your application, please clearly outline what experience you have and how you would meet the Person Specification for the role. You may also wish to attach any supporting documents such as a CV.

Please note that LBB would put out a separate advert when recruiting for Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs).

If you are an NQSW looking to express interest, please register with our Qualified Social Worker Talent Pool which you can find at the bottom of the home page of our recruitment website, and we’ll let you know when we have an opportunity that might suit you.

Additionally, you are able to register for vacancy alerts based on your preferred criteria. That way, we'll notify you by email every time we're advertising a vacancy that meets your requirements.

To view our Roadmap to Excellence document please click here .

To view our Social Work Practice Standards please click here .

Benefits

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

• Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
• Merited pay scheme
• 30 days Annual Leave
• The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent training and career development pathway
• Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
• The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
• Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer southeast area
• A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
• Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers
  
  

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts