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We are seeking an experienced and motivated Consultant Social Worker to join our Assessment and Intervention Service. This is a key practice leadership role where you will support high-quality frontline safeguarding work while developing the next generation of social workers.

You will have a central role in ensuring strong, timely, and analytical assessments and interventions for children and families. A key part of the role will be providing direct support, mentoring, and supervision to four newly qualified social workers (ASYEs), helping them build confidence, skills, and professional resilience.

This role is ideal for a practitioner who is passionate about developing others, improving practice standards, and leading by example.

Special requirements for this post

This post requires an Enhanced DBS check

You must be committed to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare.

About you

You will:

• Play a key role in shaping practice and influencing service improvement
• Support and develop newly qualified social workers at a critical stage in their careers
• Work in a supportive environment that values reflection, learning, and development
• Be part of a service focused on high standards, innovation, and positive outcomes for children
• Work in partnership with health, education, police, and wider agencies to safeguard children
• Contribute to child protection and care planning processes, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
• Provide practice leadership and oversight within the Assessment and Intervention Service
• Deliver reflective supervision, mentoring, and day-to-day support to four ASYEs
• Act as a role model for high-quality, relationship-based and strengths-based practice
• Support the completion of complex assessments, including viability, parenting, and Special Guardianship Order (SGO) assessments where required

About us

Barking & Dagenham is changing. It Starts Here.

Think you know Barking and Dagenham? Think again. While this small corner of east London might have a reputation for needing development, scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find active communities and a place that consistently punches above its weight. The borough is changing – and changing for the better. And It Starts Here.

Yes, the borough has its challenges. But it’s on the cusp of something exciting. With one of the youngest populations in the country, ambitions are high and rightly so. 98% of our schools are rated Good or Outstanding and every year more of our talented teenagers get into Russell Group Universities and hotly sought after apprenticeship schemes.

We have award winning parks, centuries old manor houses full of relics and artifacts you can go and see, and the ruins of one of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and wealthiest religious sites. We’re even bringing beavers and white storks to the borough to help rewild the local landscape and boost biodiversity.

Over the past few years, we’ve been working hard to improve how we deliver services and support our community. From tackling inequality to making sure our services are the best they can be, we’re focused on what matters most to local people.

We’re creating the conditions for people to thrive - so everyone can enjoy a good quality of life, feel proud to call this place home, and be part of something bigger.

#ItStartsHere - with our streets, our schools, our neighbourhoods. And with your application to join our determined team who are passionate about doing what’s best for the future of Barking and Dagenham.

As an Investors in People Gold Award employer, we’re serious about supporting our staff. From flexible working, professional training and career development to wellbeing initiatives, we want our people to feel valued and supported in everything they do.

Our values, known as

• DRIVE, shape how we work: Deliver our best every day – and do what we promise
• Respond in a prompt, positive way to our community’s needs
• Inspire others with our attitudes and actions
• Value people for who they are and what they can do
• Engage with others to improve our resilience and flexibility We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.