Locum Social Worker - Leaving Care

Our vision is A Southend Where All Children Achieve Success. By joining Southend Borough Council as a Social Worker/Advanced Practitioner/Team Manager you will be key in making our vision a reality for all children. You will be joining a service where we demonstrate with pride that: 

• All paths lead back to the child
• We spend time getting to know each child and their story
• We do what we say we're going to do
• We work with the whole family
• No matter what, we aim to make things better. 

You will provide support to work to the highest standard using our model of practice, Restorative Practice, to deliver the vision. You will access a professional social work development offer, that has been designed with social workers, whatever stage you are at in your career. You will be given regular restorative supervision and separate supervision focussing on development and evidencing your SWE registration. We want everyone to take a lead in an area of interest for your team and you will explore this with your line manager. 

As a Council, as we come out of Covid, we are designing future ways of working. You will work using a blended approach of spending at least 2 days a week with your team based at our office and in working from home.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this position you must have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with the Social Work England.

You need to have previous experience of working within Leaving Care services and have knowledge of looked after children and associated child in need social work practice is essential along with knowledge of methods of social work.

Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations guidance & policy issues

Your new role

Southend Council are looking for a Locum Social Worker to provide professional and comprehensive casework to a caseload of children and young people within the Leaving Care Team.

This position will be mostly working from home, but you do need to be able to get to the borough to complete assessments and join your team on site.

To provide professional and comprehensive casework to a caseload of children and young people within the long term children’s social work teams.

You need to provide an efficient and cost effective service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed. Investigate, evaluate and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidences conclusions and realistic action plans. 

The quality of practice will be supported by regular supervision. 

Training opportunities, tools and resources readily available to assist in the day to day work. 

Nowhere else will you gain as much experience on the job, making us a sought-after place to work. If you are passionate, dedicated to making a change and ready for a challenge – you could be the candidate we are looking for.