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Social Worker - Referral and Assessment

Focusing on the child, not forgetting you

Salary: £41,476 to £49,624 per annum

plus £1,500 annual retention payment, a £1,000 Golden Hello and lease car

Location: Bromley Civic Centre/flexible working (3 days in the office )

Hours: Full time - 36 hours

Contract: Permanent

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Looking for your next exciting adventure in social work? Look no further!

Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “outstanding”. You can view the latest report here.

Bromley are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Social Workers to join us on our journey to excellence. Bromley is committed to making children and young people in the Borough its top priority.

About the Role

This role is within the Referral and Assessment Service. The Referral and Assessment Teams receive all new referrals from the Bromley MASH and undertake Child and Family assessments to determine how best children’s needs can be met. There are 6 teams, each consisting of a team manager and 5 social workers. The teams go onto duty for one week every 6 weeks and during their duty week, social workers will receive new allocations.

Bromley has made a huge investment in terms of staffing in order to ensure that social workers have lower caseloads. Referral and Assessment Social Workers will carry an average of 8 families. Social workers in the service are positive, motivated and feel that their current caseload allows them complete good social work interventions with families.

As part of the Bromley Promise, there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us. You will be working within smaller teams comprising of just five Social Workers/Senior Practitioners which are headed up by the Team Manager. Our senior managers are accessible, ensuring you have support when needed. You will have dedicated time set aside for quality and reflective 1-1 supervision with your manager.

Bromley are working in a relationship-based practice framework and we are looking for a social worker who is passionate about working with children and their families. We are looking for an individual who will be able use their ability to form good relationships with families and professionals to bring about positive changes for children and young people.

Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies. This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people. To read more about our REAL Values and Behaviours, please click here: Values and Behaviours.pdf

We are confident that with your support, we will continue to provide high quality social care services to our children in Bromley as set out in our improvement and transformation plan. In return we ask that you bring your passion, dedication and skills to us.

The Bromley Promise:

• Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker
• Dedicated time for reflective supervision
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days
• Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising five Social Workers Two-week protected induction programme
• Excellent Learning and Development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker
• Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team

To view our Roadmap to Excellence document please click here

To view our Social Work Practice Standards please click here

Please click here to view our Making Bromley Even Better strategy.

Are you ready to join our team and be part of our exciting journey?

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

• Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
• Merited pay scheme
• 30 days Annual Leave
• The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent training and career development pathway
• Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
• The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
• Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas or outside the outer southeast area
• A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
• Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.

We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Applicants must have Degree or equivalent qualification in Social Care, Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check, and be registered with Social Work England (or able to obtain registration prior to commencement of employment). Appropriate and relevant experience and post-qualification experience of children and families social work within a statutory, voluntary or independent sector organisation.

Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies. If you are a candidate and would like to reach out to the Recruitment team about this role, please email Recruitment.Team@bromley.gov.uk. Please note we do not accept CV submissions emailed to us, please apply using the 'Apply now' button on our website.