About the Role
Salary: £43,454 - £55,984 (inclusive of 12.5% Market Rate Supplement)
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week with hybrid working
Location: Burgess Hill
Are you a dedicated and experienced social worker ready to make a real difference? At Family Safeguarding in our East Team, we are seeking a skilled and passionate Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker for an exciting opportunity to deliver impactful, evidence-based interventions that truly enhance safeguarding and engagement with parents and children.
We’re looking for a motivated professional who thrives in delivering innovative support that empowers families and creates lasting change. With your expertise in social work practice, you’ll proactively manage your time effectively, backed by a collaborative and supportive small team environment. You’ll play a key role in a dynamic team that celebrates success, fosters growth, and ensures ongoing professional development.
If you're ready to help drive meaningful change in children and families’ lives, we’d love to hear from you.
Family Safeguarding is a whole family strengths-based approach to safeguarding children who may be in need of support or at risk of harm. We work with families with children aged 0-18years to help them identify and make real changes, so that they can stay together, and children can remain safely at home. Our teams are co-located multi-disciplinary teams that include specialist adult practitioners from domestic abuse (to support both victims and perpetrators), substance use/recovery and mental health services ensure that families are getting support at the right time.
How We Support You
At West Sussex County Council we aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where you can achieve your full potential, gain a healthy work-life balance, and are rewarded for the work you do with clear pathways to achieve your future aspirations. A few examples of these include:
1. Flexible and hybrid working options within your small practice teams, managed by a Team Manager and supported by Child & Family Workers as well as additional flexible administrative support from Coordinators embedded within the service.
2. Regular group supervision and peer learning alongside specialist roles within the team to focus on the most vulnerable children.
3. We pay your Social Worker England registration fee.
4. Excellent learning and development provisions with 5 CPD and training days per year and access to Research in Practice and Community Care Inform.
5. An excellent
6. Generous holiday entitlement of up to 29 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
7. Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans.