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Family Network Social Work Assistant, West Malling
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Client:
Kent County Council
Location:
West Malling, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
941ce382c222
Job Views:
9
Posted:
12.08.2025
Expiry Date:
26.09.2025
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Job Description:
Role Responsibility
Fixed Term (or secondment) Full Time - Until 31st March 2026.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for fixed term posts for Family Network Social Work Assistants (FNSWA), across the county. The opportunity will be for one FNSWA to work with each Childrens Social Work Team on their duty week.
This is an excellent development opportunity to increase your skillset and knowledge of Restorative Approaches, relationship based practice and achieving best outcomes for children and their families. You will be part of an exciting and innovative project and have real opportunities to look at how we support children to remain within the care of their wider networks, reduce the risk they face and contribute to improving their outcomes.
Successful applicants will sit alongside Children's Social Work Teams providing rapid response family lead meetings for duty cases only. You will be working alongside families at a time of crisis and support them to identify and strengthen safety plans and reduce the likelihood of children experiencing entry into care, by working with them in a restorative way to identify solutions within the network.
You will be joining a service who is committed to achieving the best outcomes for Children, Young People, and their Family Networks. You will receive support and be managed by the Social Connections Team who will also provide you with formal supervision, ad hoc support, and restorative approaches training. You will be supervised by the Social Connections Service.
Ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various time of the day is essential.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
If this is something you are interested in, please refer to the full job description.
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