Family help advanced social work practitioner

Overview

Join Enfield’s Integrated Family Help Service. Enfield are looking to recruit an advanced social work practitioner in our new integrated Family Help Teams. Advanced Social Work Practitioner Full-Time MM1 Salary Range £45,393 - £57,477. The Family Help Service is an integrated preventive service that brings together advanced social work practitioners, social work practitioners and family help practitioners, working alongside one another to offer support to children and families in need that require a range of coordinated interventions from targeted early help through to child protection. There are currently social work vacancies in the generic family help teams and the pre-birth/newborn family help team and one advanced social work practitioner vacancy in a generic family help team.

Reference Number: PEO-002683

Salary: MM1 £45,393 - £57,477

Advert closing date: 19/06/2026

Department: People

Location: Thomas Hardy House

Contract type: Permanent

Division: Not specified

Hours Per Week: 36

Contract End Date: Not specified

Interview Date: w/c 29th June 2026

Role and Requirements

We are looking for enthusiastic, able and experienced qualified social workers registered with Social Work England. Practitioners will be required to demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children and show experience of being involved in applying a strength-based approach to assessing, planning and reviewing processes to support families or individual children to empower and affect change.

Responsibilities

• The social work practitioners will have a varied caseload, offering support to empower parents and carers to build on the family’s strengths preventing family breakdown and improving outcomes for children and families.
• The advanced social work practitioner will carry a smaller caseload and be responsible for line managing one case holding family help practitioner.
• This is a great opportunity to join an excellent service that works together with families to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
• We are in an exciting period of transformation with our new integrated family help teams having recently gone live.
• The Family help Teams will be supported by a developing, strong MACPT (multi-agency child protection team) that will be going live towards the end of the year.
• Our leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice.

For further information please contact:

Anne Stoker Director of Transformation at strategicsocialcare@enfield.gov.uk

Closing date for applications is Friday 19th June 2026 with interviews expected the week of 29th June. If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Debola Olufon at debola.olufon@enfield.gov.uk.

Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information please visit

“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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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 - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.

If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.