Children's Services Practitioner (Social Worker) £34,582 - £40,821 plus inner London weighting £3366 per annum London and South East Camden
Department: Local Services
Permanent
Working hours per week: 35
Location: Camden, London
Do you believe that every childhood is worth fighting for? This what drives us, and it's the reason we push ourselves to transform the lives of children and families – in person, in Hubs nationwide, and through the knowledge we share.
Would you like to Join us as Children's Services Practitioner (Level 3) and make a contribution that means everything?
All applicants must hold a social work qualification to be considered for this position.
1. Are you seeking a role holding a manageable caseload and access to a range of training and development opportunities?
2. Are you looking or a role in which you will be supervised and supported by a Team Manager with knowledge and experience of practice and a real commitment to enabling practice, enabling practitioners to achieve their full potential?
3. Are you interested in opportunities to grow, and negotiate challenges, making a real difference to children's lives?
Join us and you will become part of a team who cares about the children, families and the people they work with. The successful candidate will join the London and South East Hub based in Camden, joining a workforce of passionate and experienced practitioners and managers delivering and evaluating a range of exciting and innovative interventions to children and families.
Would you value the opportunity to deliver services which include child and parent/carer facing interventions through one-to-one or groupwork delivery? The service portfolio in the London and South East Hub includes:
4. Domestic Abuse Recovering Together (DART)– a groupwork programme helping children and their mothers strengthen relationships following domestic abuse.
5. Letting the Future In (LTFI) – a therapeutic programme designed to help children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse rebuild their lives and recover from the impact of abuse.
6. Pregnancy in Mind (PiM) - this service is a preventative, evidence-based, groupwork, mental health service for parents-to-be who are at risk of or experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and / or depression during the perinatal period.
7. Problematic Sexual Behaviour (PSB) - A service focused on children who are displaying PSB delivered over the course of displaying PSB, delivered over the course of 12 sessions with children and young people, and up to 6 for parents or carer.
This is an exciting time for the NSPCC, with staff levels engaging in a range of new projects and developments. There are opportunities to be involved in testing new services, evaluation and collaboration across the NSPCC to further the strategic goals.
8. Are you passionate about working with, and making a difference for, children and families, open to learning, committed to working as part of a team?
9. Do you have the skills and ability to: plan and deliver appropriate programmes of work and be reflective in evaluating the effectiveness of practice?
10. Can you identify risk and produce an excellent standard of written work and assessments?
11. Do you bring up to date knowledge of legislation, research and best practice?
As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and adults.
If you are interested in applying for this role, we encourage you to apply early. To help us manage the process we may close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a strong response to the role.