Social Worker - Adolescent Safeguarding Team
Reference Number: PEO-001824
Salary: SW Level 3 SP30-37 £42,324 - £49,551
Advert closing date: 14/03/2025
Department: People
Location: Thomas Hardy House
Contract type: Permanent
Division: Adolescent Safeguarding Team
Hours Per Week: 36
Job Description
If you are a dynamic and passionate person committed to working with and supporting children and young people, this is your chance to join us at Enfield Council. We offer a high quality and innovative service for children and young people in Enfield. Our children and family services were judged as Good by OFSTED in July 2024 and we want you to join us on our journey to Outstanding.
OFSTED described Enfield Social Work teams as highly motivated with manageable caseloads, allowing time for workers to get to know children and protect them effectively. Managers and staff are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people. We offer a clear Signs of Safety (SoS) framework to guide and support our work.
Enfield’s Adolescent Safeguarding Team has been created to work intensively with young people aged 11 to 17 years on the edge of care and/or at risk of child exploitation.
Within communities, we are becoming more aware of the issues regarding the impact of Contextual Safeguarding and Extra-Familial harm and what this means for young people, such as grooming, harm group culture, and young people being exploited into Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation. As a profession, we are developing our understanding and responses to the risks posed to young people. We are seeking Social Workers who have the passion, commitment, and ability to positively engage young people to improve their life outcomes and make effective change.
Evidence shows that young people entering care after the age of 10 years do not do as well as their peers who live with their own families, citing poorer outcomes experienced by LAC in relation to criminality, school exclusions, and emotional and behavioral health issues. The Adolescent Safeguarding Team will provide robust, innovative, and ambitious interventions for families of young people assessed as being on the edge of care in order to enable the family to continue to support children within the family network whilst improving outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Successful candidates will display knowledge of Contextual Safeguarding and a high level of determination to ensure young people are able to remain living within their family networks in order to achieve positive outcomes. Professionals in the team will require a high level of resilience and perseverance in the face of resistance and challenge.
Contact Details
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Arianne Rivera on 0208 132 0382 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Iona Mackinnon at iona.mackinnon@enfield.gov.uk or on 020 4526 5336.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:
* An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
* Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
* A blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.
* Interest-free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
* Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
* Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
* Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
* 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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