About The Job
Salary: £44,015 - £51,993 (inclusive of Market Supplement and Crawley Weighting Allowance)
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working 37 hours per week
Location: Crawley
Join our Family Safeguarding East Team and you will be undertaking meaningful evidence-based interventions that contribute to improved levels of engagement and safeguarding with parents and children.
We are looking for a passionate, motivated, and resilient social worker who is excited by a different way of delivering support to children and families to enable lasting change. You will have specialist knowledge of social work practice and expertise to take the lead in complex situations, with the support of our fantastic small practice teams. You will work within a positive, nurturing environment where successes are celebrated and individuals within the team are supported to grow and develop.
Family Safeguarding is a whole family strengths-based approach to safeguarding children who may be in need of support or at risk of harm. We work with families with children aged 0-18years to help them identify and make real changes, so that they can stay together, and children can remain safely at home. Our teams are co-located multi-disciplinary teams that include specialist adult practitioners from domestic abuse (to support both victims and perpetrators), substance use/recovery and mental health services ensure that families are getting support at the right time.
For further information about us and about working in Children’s Social Care at West Sussex County Council, please visit .
How We Support You
At West Sussex County Council we aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where you can achieve your full potential, gain a healthy work-life balance, and are rewarded for the work you do with clear pathways to achieve your future aspirations. A few examples of these include:
1. Flexible and hybrid working options within your small practice teams, managed by a Team Manager and supported by Child & Family Workers as well as additional flexible administrative support from Coordinators embedded within the service.
2. Regular group supervision and peer learning alongside specialist roles within the team to focus on the most vulnerable children.
3. We pay your Social Worker England registration fee.
4. Excellent learning and development provisions with 5 CPD and training days per year and access to Research in Practice and Community Care Inform.
5. An excellent local government pension scheme
6. Generous holiday entitlement of up to 29 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
7. Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans.