Senior Social Worker, £38.50ph, FSCP Team, Lambeth
Pertemps are recruiting for a qualified and experienced Children's Social Worker to join the FSCP team. The purpose of this role is to implement positive change in complex cases in children, families and carers lives by using systemic social work methods, models, and tools, with the aims of helping them to be as independent as possible. The postholder will manage and minimise risks of abuse and neglect as well as meeting care needs while exercising a high quality of professional judgement.
We will require the successful candidate to be in the office a minimum of twice a week.
What Lambeth offer:
- Accessible, stable, visible and humane leadership across children's services
- Assured TOIL in agreement with the line managers.
- Flexi working arrangements in place in agreement with line managers
- Prioritizing work-life balance along with the needs of the service
- In-depth induction offered via the Social Care Academy.
- IT system which is agile and can work anywhere and everywhere
- One-stop shop/centralised support for resource requests allowing plenty of time to work with the families
- Assurance of regular and supportive case and personal supervision
- Regular caseload reviews by the leadership team and ensuring that the caseloads are at max 15 children
- Risk sharing through regular meetings and panels chaired by senior managers
- Lambeth Social Work Academy offers free training for both agency and permanent staff.
- Opportunity for career development across various services subject to compliance with the requirement
- Good interface with Contextual Safeguarding Teams, Court Teams, Early Help services and community-based organisations that partner with children's
The successful candidate must have relevant experience within a Children's Services setting, have completed their ASYE and be registered with the SWE.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:
- A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
- An easy registration process (all done online)
- Referral schemes and incentives
- Ongoing compliance managed for you
- Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more
Please contact Aishah Hassan on for more information